On or About 19 Mar 98 at 14:27, Ian Briggs wrote:
Spamming is an 'imaginary' felony, as are anonymity and encryption.
No, its actually theft of services.
No, actually your complaints about spam are TRUE theft of services. In an article that I posted to this list last year it says the following: Mailing-list spammers Email spam is the favorite gripe of most Netizens, excepting the spammers. Congress is considering legislation [25] to limit the practice of sending unwanted commercial email in bulk. Not everyone thinks this is a good idea. See [26] for a thread from an ongoing debate on Declan McCullagh's fight-censorship mailing list. George Matyjewicz <mosaic1 at ix dot netcom dot com> did a modest experiment on a week's worth of his email -- he is on 56 mailing lists and gets around 200 messages a day -- to gauge how widespread the problem actually is. Matyjewicz posted these results: Total messages...1,354...193.4 Spam messages.......10.......1.4.....< 1 % Spam complaints....189.......27.0.....14 % This article is at: http://206.215.211.222/archive/0108.html Spam is not crime, it's commerce. Shut up and hit that delete key, you fucktard. Thanks. =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://ross.adnetsol.com Voice: (408) 259-2795