On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:23:30PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:47:10PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers 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 encouraging politicians to pass laws about the content > of email is a bad and dangerous thing to do. Do you really think > that an anti-spam law will be carefully written to target only > spam, and that their idea of spam corresponds to yours? Do you really > think they will stop there, once they have a solid precedent for > legislating against unpopular content on the net? Although it might not be at the moment, their thoughts should be the same as the thoughts of most of the people. I think that you can really write a law which clearly says what's spam and what not, there is clear distinction. 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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