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Andrew Nellis wrote:

> Ian W. Douglas (wild.spam@cyberus.ca) writes:
> >>http://www.freesoftware.net/ca.ml
> >
> > Anyone have any thoughts on how we might get ourselves taken off this
> > huge list?
>
> You can't.  There is no known way to get yourself removed from a spamming
> list once you're on it.  And even if you could, the damage is already
> done.  Any spammer who wants it has already downloaded those lists.
> >snipped for length
> They appear to have no understanding that spamming requires, bu its very
> nature, a theft of other people' resources.  In fact, spam is the single
> greatest THREAT to free speech on the entire Internet.
>

Forget spam being the threat, try those stupid brochures, mags& flyers in your
real mailbox, and what's worse is they have to be
disposed of afterwards. (Paper, inks) At least with spam, it
can be cleanly "nuked" or filtered. (no tree's required)
Unless you run a mail server or your an ISP, then the resources
aren't yours to lose. You rent them. If they fall to an unexceptable
level, then you change ISP's. Hey, it may force your ISP to upgrade
his servers. I feel that censorship is by far the greatest threat to the
internet, not my ability (or lack of) to deal with spam. Everyone should
be able to connect and share their idea's, products, services.
This is a free country, even for spammers.
I get a lot more upset at seeing my little mailbox stuffed with
advertisements and brochures that I have no interest in. Especially
when I throw them into a large bin in our mailroom, only to see
a huge stack of them that others in the high-rise had throw away
as well. I would say that 95% of them were in the trash. This
happens everyday. That is "real" wasted resource that will
hurt us more in the long run. Even if they do the recycle thing,
Its not as environmentally clean as spam in cyberspace.
What's an 18Gb HD going to be worth compared to a tree
for your great grandchildren to climb?
I do not defend spam, I have never spammed, Spam sucks.
I just don't preserve it such a deadly threat.

Buzz
Ottawa
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