Nonsense, absolute nonsense... [Fwd: HipCrime and Spam]
This is an absurd and inaccurate analogy. The mailBot simply pushes *mailto:* tags that people have willingly placed on their public websites. They invite the mail so a more accurate analogy would be that City Hall puts up a public suggestion box and invites comments. The bot then puts one, and only one, unsigned anonymous suggestion into the box. It then goes on to the Art Gallery where they too have put up a public suggestion box, and the bot places one, and only one, anonymous suggestion in that box also...and it moves on to the next publicly accessable suggestion box that it finds, each time putting in one, and only one, message.
Can the College-aged mind these days not develop a rational, concise, accurate and logical analogy that stays on point?
Think about it... or take down the public suggestion boxes if one doesn't like what one finds inside. If you invite feedback...it will come.
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HipCrime <na673130@anon.penet.fi> wrote:
Be honest, all you really care about is something which "threatens the existence" your little baby.
I think you were referring to yourself, Robert. :)
Since you don't seem to understand the concept of spam very well yet, try this little experiment:
Go downtown to City Hall and post advertisements for your website on all the walls and doors. Be sure to put one on the Mayor's office and all the members of the City Council. If they complain, explain to them why they are weak-minded souls who can't remove unwanted messages.
Go to the local art gallery and post your signs all over. Tell people that since your web site is an "art project", that you are posting EXACTLY on topic, to an "appropriate group". Ask, "So, what's your problem ?!?"
Pass out survey forms. Ask people where they want to see advertisements. Go to these sites and spray-paint your http address. If people complain that you are "harassing" them, ask them why a whopping eighteen letters written on the wall is harassment. Tell them it's not *your* fault, that you're just doing what other people told you to. Explain how many trees you are saving by using spray-paint instead of paper.
When the police handcuff you and take you away, complain that they are censoring you. Tell the judge that you want to sue the cops for violating your civil rights. While you're in jail, think about why what you did was wrong.
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This is an absurd and inaccurate analogy. The mailBot simply pushes *mailto:* tags that people have willingly placed on their public websites. They invite the mail so a more accurate analogy would be that City Hall puts up a public suggestion box and invites comments. The bot then puts one, and only one, unsigned anonymous suggestion into the box. It then goes on to the
You're sending out messages, inviting people to visit your web site, but you're using anonymous remailers because... you don't want people to know who you are? Then why invite them to your site (or even have a site)? It's like if I sent out postcards to people with no return address saying, "Please stop by 1313 Mockingbird Lane for snacks and refreshments. Signed, A Friend". (Note, this is not my real address.) Only in this case the postcards don't have any stamps so the people who receive them have to pay the postage. Which is precisely what you're doing: Sending someone e-mail costs them time and it often costs them money. Sending it through an anonymous remailer accomplishes four things: 1) People can't complain to you to stop sending them mail. 2) It costs us, the International Secret Cabal of Anonymous Remailer Operators, time and money for no good reason, because you are sending anonymous mail and not making yourself anonymous. 3) You're pissing off a bunch of people, and the only ones they can take their frustrations out on or complain to is us. 4) It's giving us a bad rap, man, and that's the *last* thing the remailer net needs now. I could care less about your little applet, or what you have to say; in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket." Until, that is, you start sending it through my remailer, and *then* you start picking my pocket. The remailers of the world don't exist to provide non-anonymous anonymous advertising, which you could do just as well on your own sending forged e-mail headers from netcom. Andy Dustman / Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Design / UGA ===== For PGP public key: finger andy@neptune.chem.uga.edu | pgp -fka ===== Sure, the Telecomm Act will create jobs: 100,000 new thought-cops on the net http://charon.chem.uga.edu/~andy mailto:andy@CCMSD.chem.uga.edu <}+++< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMjdoky0jMb7JduJJAQGEhAQAt6t18GgMP3v6axTGtNiUHXwNN7UR/V+F XAZtvTXgg9KFR+ZwnfJz3IMrry0aQCNMC2Ude7mldFyfq8FqVVrA6sE26rwYvWUS U3C3SCiDXhp3rn9RDfbWV8mZcnC6IRHYz9o5qyuhZTfvGdlZr7/nDTOZZPO7icCN MiYEGcjJzqY= =l0Ek -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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