-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Adam Back wrote:
Some people have been arguing that cancelling other peoples posts based on their own subjective views is a good thing.
Nno one is arugeing that. Both sides in this debait aggry that that is a REAL BAD thing. Spam cancelers use an objective rules. The world would be a better place if this didn't happen and everybody was on NoCeM. But yet this is not true. [...]
It's censorship. If you didn't write it, you have no business cancelling it.
Not even forgeries in my name? Not even out of the control spews from fidonet?
NoCems are a good solution to mailing list and USENET groups spams.
NoCeMs don't work on email.
For email spams (not talking about cancels here), I'd suggest attaching electronic payment to emails as a condition of delivery.
And thus killing mailing lists like freedom knights and cyperpunks? Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep. ex-net.scum and proud You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For Themselves? --Terry Pratchett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM9+0k6QK0ynCmdStAQFWYwQA0NmbRaL14Fp0XHik+pgJ7sAxx5MQJd+m tjO023S8SUncdaUdB5VtrXK0quZvrS9GU087s6xAXNMGbv2UAxVPY5raBhJ1V1yf C0KBkPgxHcKHBEs53oMRtHJTkMMx3XhCL24fUPI8j1Coy/rvraFqNF6S1WppZSwa UawusK+H1ZY= =mDBU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----