Doug, Do you feel the FCC's existing rule against unsolicited faxes (title 47, chapter 5, subchapter II, section 227) censors or limits freedom of communication or expression, and should be repealed? -d Doug wrote: > > Hey Eliot Lear, > > NO NO NO and HELL NO. I despise Spam to the utmost degree and I regularly > refuse to buy items from people that advertise to me using Spam. On the > other hand I do not want someone telling me what I can and cannot receive in > my email or what I can and cannot send for that matter. I feel no need to > call my local congress man or woman over the contents of my inbox and really > hope that others do not as well because if we as a nation complain about > Spam enough and god forbid that we somehow get them to listen to us and do > something about it then we will be not only submitting to censorship and > oppression of things most of us agree are undesirable but also to the things > that the elite of the government find offensive. These things could include > anything that is counter to the mainstream religious beliefs and practices > and indeed anything that meets the least strict interpretation of > subversive. The censorship will not stop there indeed it will only grow > because by asking congress in one unanimous voice to censor our email we > will have admitted to the government that we are unable to handle the > information available to us on the internet and they will begin maneuvering > into a position to censor the information available to us on the internet as > well. The government already gathers information about what we look at and > what we put on the Internet let's not give them a reason or the ability to > take our right to know away from us. Instead I suggest we spend a little > more time and effort to developing new routines to filter out the Spam for > ourselves and boycotting the products and services whose providers choose to > use Spam to advertise to us. > > Sincerely, > > Doug > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eliot Lear" <lear@cisco.com> > To: <perry@PIERMONT.COM> > Cc: <ietf@ietf.org> > Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 1:53 PM > Subject: writing congress about spam > > > > 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. > > > > Ironically, if there is one body who has had to deal with large volumes > > of unsolicited mail for a very long time, it is Congress. Indeed an > > industry has been formed around it, because much of the mail must be > > answered. From my experience, these answers are actually quite funny, > > because they show very little relationship between the point I was > > raising and the point that they choose to make in their so-called > > response. Of course, commercial software folk must claim at some level > > that my Congress person is just not using the latest and greatest. > > > > Perhaps they need a variety of spam asssasin... > > > > Eliot > > > >