Dear Friends, As many of you no doubt know, a new moderated group, comp.org.cauce, has been proposed. One of the main goals of moderators is to prevent users of one-way anonymous remailers and those who munge (alter) their addresses to avoid being spammed, from posting to the group. Their proposal would force users to reveal their Internet identities and expose them to spam. The proponents hope, apparently, that the more spam people get, the more will they support CAUCE's statist lobbying for more government regulations. During the discussion they have shown complete disregard and ignored all requests from users who attempted to help them accommodate anonymous posting. To get more YES votes, they removed the most controversial provisions from the charter, while IN THE SAME DAY promising that these provisions will still be enforced. As someone who defends privacy and anonymity on the Internet, I ask you to vote on this important matter. I will vote NO on this newsgroup. Feel free to repost this message to any fora you deem appropriate. To find the Call For Votes, go to news.groups newsgroup, and find article titled "CFV: comp.org.cauce moderated". You will find the charter and the instructions on how to vote. Thank you for your attention. - Igor.