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In article <6f2u1f$eg6@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
Andrew Nellis <bs904@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>
>>>http://www.freesoftware.net/ca.ml
>
>I'd also like to take a moment to point out that the long-awaited Smith
>bill is in trouble.  Both the ACLU and the DMA have come out against it,
>and it risks having its guts torn out or being scuttled altogether.  The
>ACLU especially is in need of a MAJOR cluestick; they see this as a
>freedom of speech issue.  In their statement they say they understand that
>spam is "annoying," but feel that even annoying things should be protected. 
>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.
>
>If you'd like to make sure the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
>doesn't make a similar fuck-up.
>
>I have spoken to them on the phone, and currently they have no policy
>regarding junk e-mail.  Please take the time to hand them a clue.


Rather than contacting the CCLA, who are not very technologically
sophisticated, you should be contacting Electronic Frontier Canada.

		efc@efc.ca

		http://www.efc.ca/


-- David Jones, PhD


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