17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, TruthMonger wrote:
Spamming is an 'imaginary' felony, as are anonymity and encryption.
Spamming is theft of services, sir. I am forced to pay for a "service" that I did not request. I, and everyone else, pays for spam either directly in connect time, or because my ISP wastes bandwidth handling the stuff. I am not that much bothered by that it is advertising, or pure junk, but that I pay for it.
To really beat spamming we probably need filters that only allow messages from inside our web of trust. Don't you agree?
Make people bear the true cost of spam, and it will stop.