Your analogies are flawed. Spam is easy to delete, but bullets are exceedingly hard to dodge (outside the Matrix), and cigarettes are smoked voluntarily by the people in whom they produce cancer. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomson Eric (Yahoo.fr)" <Tomson_Eric@Yahoo.fr> To: "'Anthony Atkielski'" <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: "'IETF Discussion'" <ietf@ietf.org> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 02:40 Subject: RE: spam - The IETF list is spam! > So? > > "Don't stop selling guns, force people to buy bullet-proof jackets"? > > "Don't forbid selling cigarettes, build larger hospitals"? > > Pardon me if I do not agree with you...