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At 5:23 AM -0500 3/26/98, Rich Sena wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Dean Anderson wrote:
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>> Ah. Only girls with lowcut blouses and short skirts are raped. Since I
>> don't wear lowcut blouses or short skirts, I have nothing to worry about,
>> and shouldn't be concerned. Rape is OK, since it only happens to the sleazy
>> girls. Uh Huh. When can I screw the interns? Say, you aren't hosting any
>> porn or uncensored webcams are you? Boy, I think they're sick. Lets make
>> sure we disconnect the entire lot, and any ISP/NSP who refuses to cooperate
>> we'll just DoS them until they are pounded to dirt, like AGIS. Hey look,
>> I think they are irresponsible. I'm justified in harassing them and
>> publishing false routes etc. Right?
>>
>> I expect some kind of gaussian distribution of harassment develops where
>> everyone gets harassed by some lunatic, and can't do anything about it.
>> Eventually, somebody mails a bomb. To me? To you? To some kid in Vermont?
>> You're smarter than that. I think. Besides, I react badly to coercion. So
>> do most people. Thats why we need laws. Sensible ones at that.
>
>What type of crack are you on Dean? Your analogy is a mockery of the whole
No crack. Just a cool, drug-free and relaxed guy, who thinks these
anti-spammers need to get a life or maybe a dog to get rid of some stress.
My analogy is a mockery of something. We just disagree on what it's a
mockery of.
Anti-spammer terrorists have no moral high ground. Even the Islamic
fundamentalists believe they are doing Allah's work. Anti-spammers believe
they are making the world what? More convenient?
>Whose responsibility is YOUR dog - and if you don't curb your dog, and I
>have to, I will definately make sure you do not enjoy and want to
>avoid the experience in the future.
Ok, here's a metaphoric response:
Unfortunately, you don't get to kill the neighbors dog because it shit in
your yard. True, in many big cities, there are ordinances which require
dog owners to scoop up their dog shit, and keep all dogs on a leash. In
most places places however, there aren't any such ordinances. You find
shit in your lawn, tough. Go to the city council. Get an ordinance passed.
Until you get an ordinance passed, and even if you do get an ordinace
passed, it's going to be illegal to shoot your neighbors dog.
I don't have any dogs. But I'm not going to stand idly by while you start
shooting up the neighbhood trying to get rid of dog shit. I'm also not
going to participate in your scheme to poison all the dogs in town. Dogs
shit. Its what they do. You have to put up with a little shit in life.
People act like the world is about to end because of a little dogshit.
"Must... Stamp.... Out.... Dogshit... Kill... Dogs... At... All... Costs...
Break... Gun... Laws... Shoot... Kill... Save... Humanity... From...
Dogshit..." You're drooling. ;-)
So, basically, I think anti-spammer terrorists are just like the jerks who
run around trying to have dogs put to sleep, all because they are so
terribly upset about a little dogshit in their lawn. Its not a big deal.
After the next rain, its fertilizer, and their lawn grows greener. Some
people are just over-reactive assholes.
End of metaphor. How about that. Two issues we disagree on.
On the other hand, there are some things about spam that should be
regulated. There are postal service laws which apply to junk mailers,
which prohibit things like pyramid schemes, a few other obscure crimes that
happen via postal mail and could possibly happen over email. Junk mailers
also must remove people from lists within 30 days. The post office
maintains the list of who to remove, not the junk mailers. These are all
quite reasonable things to apply to spammers. I'm for that. Just not for
banning spam, nor violating laws to stop it, nor for vigilante activity in
general.
The paper or electronic media over which these crimes are committed
shouldn't really matter. My proposal has been to make these laws
essentially media-independent. It curbs the abuse legally. It just
doesn't satisify the radicals who want to ban spam at any cost.
--Dean
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