on 5/26/2003 3:58 PM Dean Anderson wrote: > You have yet to find any compelling grounds on which to limit real > commercial speech, and yet to even demonstrate any harms of real > commercial speech. Spam on my measured-rate cellular-data PDA is real cost. Spam on my measured-rate ISDN line (California) is real cost. Extra staffing to counteract spam at my [isp|university|business] is real cost (setting aside other costs that you seem willing to ignore). There are plenty of examples to pick from. These are abnormal expenses which go directly into maintaining the usefulness of my property and which do not increase its value. The right to commercial speech would not warrant these costs for any other venue, and there is nothing sufficiently different and unique about this venue to warrant it here. You are certainly entitled to the opposite opinion but the existence of previous laws for protection in other venues is evidence against you. Perhaps you can provide an example of a law that acts as evidence in favor of your opinion so we can see how this balances out. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/