Life imitates art333

[Joe Mabel]

I for one (a) don't like spam and (b) don't believe in unnecessarily using 
the gov't as my enforcer.

I will continue, when I receive spam, to email to postmaster and abuse 
along the trail of where it came from. Usually, the result of this is that 
I get back an email letting me know the spammer's account has been taken 
away, which strikes me as appropriate.  I assume that if there is an ISP 
who is a routine source of spam, the other ISPs will similarly stop 
accepting email from that ISP.

To me, this seems like a better solution than bothering with the courts & 
the law.  It also seems better than "learning to live with" an abusive 
behavior.

JM

-----Original Message-----
From:	Kurt Cockrum [SMTP:kurt at grogatch.seaslug.org]
Sent:	Wednesday, May 26, 1999 10:01 AM
To:	governance at scn.org; hardware at scn.org
Cc:	local-computer-activists at scn.org; scn at scn.org
Subject:	Life imitates art333

References: <199905240601.XAA15049 at scn.org>,
	<199905240601.XAA15048 at scn.org>, <199905240601.XAA15047 at scn.org>,
	<199905241704.KAA24412 at grogatch.seaslug.org>,
	<199905242154.OAA08979 at scn.org>, <199905242245.PAA26090 at scn.org>,
	<Pine.SUN.3.96.990524155116.28102A-100000 at scn>,
	<199905242232.PAA20617 at scn.org>, <3749A00C.C1394C28 at uswest.net>,
	<199905242145.OAA05254 at scn.org>,
	<004a01bea639$61ead840$a78cc5ce at thurman.com>,
	<Pine.SUN.4.10.9905241540240.18690-100000 at scn>,
	<Pine.SUN.3.96.990525003914.21638A-100000 at scn>,
	<000a01bea6ce$bfe9d8c0$a78cc5ce at thurman.com>,
	<199905251944.MAA00528 at scn.org>,
	<Pine.SUN.4.10.9905251844410.17716-100000 at scn>,
	<199905260455.VAA04175 at grogatch.seaslug.org>

After all this backNforth, I think it's time SCN {governance,BOD,everybody}
decided whether or not to test the Paper Tiger AntiSpam Law.  If they 
decide
NOT to, for what MIGHT be very good reasons, then I think everybody
ought to just SHUT UP about spam and learn to LIVE with it.

If people can tolerate some of the major ongoing problems in society
and continue to pay the taxes that support it without batting an eye
(such as the drug war, kids blowing each other away, rogue cops, runaway
prison construction, Patty Murray/Slade Gorton, software patents,
NAFTA/MAI/WTO, road rage, global warming, ethnic cleansing, weapons
exports, corporations-as-persons, you-name-it), they sure-as-hell can
learn to live with SPAM, because it's really pretty trivial compared to
ANY of these.

As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us".

So, unless people are willing to seriously and relentlessly pursue art333
with all the evidence we have, and do the homework and spend the money,
and show up in court (BTW my esteemed spouse suggested Small Claims
Court), win the case, get the judgement, collect on it, yadda, yadda,
then EVERYBODY SHUT UP ABOUT SPAM ALREADY!!!!!!
--kurt
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