From fork-admin@xent.com Fri Aug 23 11:08:46 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D38B47C6C for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 06:06:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:06:53 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7MNQTZ29953 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:26:29 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B56294186; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403D8294099 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 159-98.nyc.dsl.access.net (159-98.nyc.dsl.access.net [166.84.159.98]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414A54877A for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:25:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Lucas Gonze X-X-Sender: lgonze@localhost.localdomain Cc: "Fork@Xent.Com" Subject: Re: The case for spam In-Reply-To: <3D6556DC.5070408@permafrost.net> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:18:12 -0400 (EDT) Political mail (the snail kind) doesn't bother me. I like it a lot of the time, because as crap as it is at least it's not the kind of info you get on TV. Particularly for small time local politics, it's the best way to get information. but what matters is that mail is speech, and political email has to be as well protected as any other political speech. Spam is *the* tool for dissident news, since the face that it's unsolicited means that recipients can't be blamed for being on a mailing list. http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork