I'm not for Screw The Establishment(TM). I am against government involvement, of any kind. There's been too much hedging going on for far too long.
Knowing that the government only has the rights we the people gave it, the rest of what you say is pretty good. Joseph Carter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:45:56AM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote: >> Oh man, the only thing worse than SPAM is government involvement. > >I'm all for Screw The Establishment(TM), but on spam control I am willing >to hedge a little bit on the details of my freedom for the public >wellfare. To define my thinking a bit by example: > > - You have a right to say what you want, but others have the right to > hold you accountable for what you say. The government does have the > right to limit speech to the effect that they may do so in other > venues: Free speech is not an adequate defense for charges of fraud, > for example. > > - You have the right to send mail that is deliberately anonymous, though > the government should be free to pass legislation making it illegal for > you to misrepresent who you are in electronic communications. (ie, > they may make it illegal for me to be Bob Miller since I am not he or > I'd have quietly leaked the series2 remote code and EEPROM passwd by > now.. This may mean that they will require email that is anonymous to > carry prominent indication (from field for example) that the sender has > chosen to not name himself..) > > - The government has the right to ammend the legislation regarding > sending of "junk faxes" to cover other electronic communications such > as cellular phones and email where the cost of advertising is a burden > on the recipient rather than the advertiser. If this means absolutely > no unsolicited commercial mail will be tollerated, then I am all for > the costs of enforcement coming out of tax dollars. > > - It should be a crime to knowingly spread false information to the > masses in the hope that they will buy into it and do something they may > not otherwise do. You need never fear the government will enact such a > law, however, since the impact to US politics would be devastating - > far more so than it would be to that class of spammers. > >cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules. > -- Linus Torvalds > > _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
