At 23:50 23/05/02 +0200, Alfredo G�mez Grande wrote:
>And about your comments: Anybody is going to scrawl your house with
>graffiti.
[I have assumed you meant "nobody is going to scrawl your house with graffiti].
In fact lots of people get their houses scrawled with graffiti,
particularly in large urban areas.
>You can defend your property, even with weapons (only US).
This assumes you're there to do it. Graffitists like to strike when
nobody's around.
>But we
>are talking about mailboxes so let's don't go beyond the limits of the
>Reality.
People pay for their houses. People pay for their electronic mailboxes.
Many houses use external materials designed to be painted. Electronic
mailboxes are designed to receive electronic Mail.
The fact that the outside of a house is designed to be painted does not
mean that spray-painted graffiti is permitted. The fact that electronic
mailboxes are designed to receive electronic mail does not mean that spam
is permitted.
Graffiti is something done to the house that is against the wishes of the
owner. Spam is something done to electronic mailboxes that is against the
wishes of the owner.
Graffiti costs time and money to clean off the walls. Spam costs time and
money to clean out of the mailbox
Graffiti contains a message. Spam contains a message.
Graffiti is a use of the possessions of others to the benefit of its
perpetrator. Spam is a use of the possessions of others to the benefit of
the perpetrator.
You appear to have started from the position that an electronic mailbox is
nothing of value. But people pay for electronic mailboxes. Many people
(including me) pay for *specific* electronic mailboxes that relate to their
name. If people are paying money for these things, they are quite clearly
something of value.
You also appear to assume that because electronic mailboxes are merely
represented by bits and bytes in computers, there is no harm done to the
recipient by something that alters those bits and bytes. In fact the entire
purpose of a computer is to alter bits and bytes and produce output based
on them. This is the source of all their value. A computer that cannot
manipulate its bits and bytes is worthless. People pay thousands of dollars
for physical hardware, merely to get the bits and bytes and the
manipulations of bits and bytes. Clearly the bits and bytes, and the
configuration of those bits and bytes, are of value to the owner.
If the mailbox, and the bits and bytes, are of value to the owner when they
are used in accordance with the owners wishes, then use of the mailbox or
the bits and bytes in contradiction to the owners wishes is necessarily of
negative value to the owner - that is, harmful to them.
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