At 06:26 PM 8/16/2002 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >The spammers are destroying the usefulness of enormous amounts of >wonderful infrastructure. Time for everyone to get on the phone with >their congressman and ask them if they are interested in what 98% of >the planet wants or what the Direct Marketing Association wants. In the form you present it, Perry, this is an incredibly bad suggestion. What it will most likely do is create a frankly hysterical response from Congress, with the most likely effect being censorship. Congress does not invent answers. They ratify them. A coherent community needs to develop a coherent, workable, useful proposal and THEN contact Congress (if passing laws is required.) d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dave@tribalwise.com> TribalWise, Inc. <http://www.tribalwise.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850