On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:27:07AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > How do we solve the problem then? I think the answer is easy, just > > make some good law against spam. Punish the people who send spam. That > > would *solve* the problem, not work around it. So instead of just the > > next message discussing about spam, talk to the political persons in > > your country. > > I think that our lawmakers are too busy protecting corporate interests > to take care of a minor problem like spam. (maybe if it could be > demonstrated that it causes tangible harm to a major campaign > contributor, but I'm not holding my breath) And I don't know what the > proportion is, but a fair bit of spam seems to be generated in foreign > countries anyway.. That's all true, but not unsolvable. I don't know if you mean with "our lawmakers" the US lawmakers, but the situation is a bit better in Europe regarding the bribery (but also getting worse, especially on EU-level). But spam doesn't only harm us as specific OS/FS group, it harms everybody. I think that makes it easier to explain why spam sender should be punished and that opt-in must be the only legal way for advertising. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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