22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
2:29 a.m.
It's not grassroots capitalism, but it is human nature. If you could get
someone else to pay your electric bill, wouldn't you use it, at least so long as
it was legal?
Capitalism is not evil. Letting others take a free ride at your (and others')
expense because it's easier to allow it than to prevent it is what's evil.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se>
To: "Richard Erlacher" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: Wave of the Future (Spam)
Richard Erlacher skrev:
If I ever want to send several people the same
email, which I've not yet
done, after about 10 years of internetting, I'd simply write a script to do
that.
I do that each and every day. Friend A and Friend B are both usergroup
members and our interests overlap quite well, so bouncing messages between the
three of us comes natural.
It should be a requirement for an email message to
get through even ONE
server beyond its point of origin, that the message have the real point of
origin in it and that the point of origin be listed in the text of the
message as well as in the header. Any message in which the originator is not
named and traceable via FINGER, with a validated account, can simply be
dropped. It is easy enough to reject unwanted mail, provided you have a list
of acceptable sources.
My provider dropped finger a while ago due to security holes in their d?mon,
unfortunately. Most "modern" providers wouldn't even know what finger was.
If you don't want to surrender your anonymity,
we'll simply all have to put
up with the SPAM. Now, I get a bit of SPAM from time to time, maybe as much
as 20% of my mail, but it's pretty easy to recognize and delete. What annoys
me is that it takes more bandwidth to reject the stuff than simply to delete
it.
What annoys me is that we didn't have this a few years ago. This is evil
grass-roots capitalism at its worst.
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