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In article <slrn94o0h6.ct.plew@crane.li-po.edu>,
Paul Lew <plew@csus.edu> wrote:
>>Most of the people that care to know, already knew this.
>
>That is a generality.  I care and only found out about ORBS recently
>and feel that blocking my legitimate email means ORBS is just hacking
>the Internet to make transactions unreliable.  ORBS has not publicised
>their intent and purpose widely thru the news media.

All I can say is Welcome to the Internet, and _some_ of its
complexities.  Manners, social customs, morals and dating customs are
sometimes not talked about in the popular press, yet, they are at
times, despite how old fashioned they may seem, useful.  You're just
expected to know them.  At least most (or maybe some, to give John his
due) sites that use MAPS/ORBS to block, will _tell_ people about it.
Email behavior is similar.  For example, is some forums (I'd say all,
but I'm weird), it is bad form to send html.  Yet people do.

You seem to think that if ORBS wanted coverage on CNN, they could just
call them up and have CNN do an hour long segment that would cover
these topics, so that people may be educated.  I think it might be
good if they did this sort of thing, but, alas the cynic in me says
that we don't have a fighting chance of it happening.  Feel free to
contact your news media and try and get them to cover it.  Tell us if
it worked.  My news media (/. and ba.internet) I think has had a few
things in the past on this topic.  Maybe you are reading the wrong
news source?  Is that our fault, or yours?

:-)

And yes, of course the ends justify the means, otherwise, we wouldn't
do it, duh.