Richard Johnson wrote:
At 12:33 -0700 on 1/15/98, Mark Berry wrote:
Hi to all members of the list
Just a quick question... Does anyone object to their posts to this list being forwarded (to cypherpunk type lists)? ...
I don't really care about my own posts, should I make some. I worry, however, about drawing in the kooks.
Richard
My name isn't Richard, but I'm still a Dick... I agree that we should worry about drawing in the kooks who have little experience in proper construction of an aluminum-foil hat capable of drowning out the voices that try to twist our minds into believing that the purpose of operating a remailer is to provide a forum for unfettered communication, when Rush Limbaugh and Chris Lewis recognize that the true purpose of running a remailer is to block spam and UCE's. Even more frightening is the prospect that a US citizen might go so far as to use a remailer to send a message to the Whitehouse that men licensed to use guns against the citizens might find objectionable. Those who have never operated a remailer fail to realize that the main goal of a remailer-operator should not be to provide a non-discriminatory forwarding service for anonymous users, but to ensure continued operation by not ruffling the feathers of upstream providers, and to provide a spam/UCE filtering service for computer users who have foolishly spent their money purchasing email software which does not allow them to quickly and easily set up their own self-defined email filters. It has long been my contention that if a child being molested by 'Uncle Jim' is too fucking lazy to learn how to use PGP in order to help remailer operators cut down on spam, then they deserve every ounce of seminal fluid forced down their throat by 'Uncle Jim' and the guys who live in the dumpster behind the Greyhound station and are willing to share their bottle of Thunderbird with anyone who has access to vulnerable young children. Of course, I'm a pedophile, so I could be a bit biased in this regard. TotoHomoLoco