A perhaps-timely excerpt from my column that appeared Monday, saying we should trust technology instead of politicians to stop spam: http://news.com.com/2010-1074-957024.html >Politicians, always cunning about keeping their options open, have >exempted themselves from all existing and proposed anti-spam laws. The >Democratic Party has been caught spamming, as has Bill Jones, the recent >unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor of California. [...] Previous Politech messages: "Bulk, unsolicited political email isn't spam -- right?" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03203.html "Confirmed: Calif. gov wannabe Bill Jones is a recidivist spammer" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03200.html "Did Florida's Jeb Bush spam voters by using Democratic mail list?" http://www.politechbot.com/p-03330.html -Declan --- Date: 10 Sep 2002 21:04:15 -0400 From: "John R Levine" <johnlat_private> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declanat_private> Subject: Political spam season again This showed up here this morning, to an address often scraped from my web site. The mail headers were typical forged spamware junk, via an open relay in India that's sent a lot of spam in the past week. I have no idea whether this is for real or a joe job, but since I live in upstate New York, it's not a very good one either way. 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