🚀 go-pugleaf

I getting a bit bored by all of this, so I probably won't post anything
else.  Here are my parting words on the subject.

You guys who post rabid anti-spam materials would have done well in old
Salem during the witch hunts and during the McCarthy era.  Your minds
are made up and I only confuse you with the facts.  You are NOT freedom
fighters.  You are wannabee totalitarian despots.

I just want the people who you are trying to whip up into an irrational
frenzy to understand that the rabid noisy voices are not the voices of
unanimity and certainly not of reason.  The people behind the rabid
voices have their own reasons for trying to whip you into a frenzy and
mislead you to believe that all spammers are scammers.

Spam does not mean Scam.  They sound alike.  The words look a little a
like, but they have diferent meanings. Okay?  

Despite what you claim, all commercial presences on the web are not
scams.  Most are legitimate businesses.  Some of scams.  Pyramid
schemes existed long before there were any computers.  So did chain
letters.  Yet no one ever suggested that a store be shut down because
somebody sold a "Rolex" watch on the street in front of it for 5 bucks.
 Yet the rapid voices suggest the internet equivalent.

All people who advertise (and/or spam) are not out to cheat and
defraud. There are those everywhere that will cheat and steal, but that
does not make every advertiser who posts to the newsgroups or sends out
email a criminal. The potential for fraud is not justification to
censor the commercial speech of all. 

Thus the element which insists that all spammers are scammers and
therefore all commercial activity should be driven out by fair means or
foul (with a joyous emphasis on the foul) want to dictate what others
should do and penalize those who won't obey them.  They want to take
away my freedom.  They want to take away everyone else's freedom.  They
want obedience - or else.  

Now, no one has to listen to me, but if these fellows get their way,
everyone will have to listen to them and obey. They will control what
can been seen and what cannot.  They will control what can be posted to
usenet and what cannot.  They will decide what can be transmitted and
received as email.  And those who do not conform will have to seriously
consider the penalty they will seek to inflict.  Not a pretty picture,
is it?  It never has been, not since long before the witch trials.  And
it was said that the Telecommunications Act infringed on freedoms.  It
has nothing on these guys.

End of subject.

Sandra D. Helbig
lawpage@access.digex.net