On or About 24 May 97 at 22:42, Kent Crispin wrote:

This is the conundrum of spam. It exploits a fundamental weakness in our communication protocols, and illustrates a fundamental philosophical problem in the realm of freedom of speech through a finite bandwidth communication channel -- what happens when someone uses their freedom of speech to overload the channel, thus interfering with everyone else's freedom of speech? (An information theoretic "tragedy of the commons".)

Clearly, it seems to me, freedom of speech should not include the freedom to destroy others freedom of speech by overloading the channel.

There we go, full circle to what started this whole thread. And quite well put. Seems as if EVERYONE is really clueless about this one, not just WHG3.

But to avoid this problem you need protocols that govern access to the channel...protocols which do not exist for email.

And we don't want those. I think. 1 am on a Saturday, and it's really confusing. As long as I get to keep doing what it is I'm doing, I'm happy. =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: (408) 259-2795