[I agree with John. --Declan] --- To: declanat_private, gnuat_private cc: politechat_private Subject: Re: FC: SpamCop's Julian Haight replies to Politech, and other defenses In-reply-to: <5.1.1.6.0.20021104213920.02a3cd10at_private> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 09:49:11 -0800 From: John Gilmore <gnuat_private> Declan, aren't you comforted by knowing that your online email newspaper is being censored not because of what it says, not because of its own subscription policies, but because of the policies of its neighbors in a rack in some windowless room? EFF's first principle of antispam is "Any measure for stopping spam must ensure that all non-spam messages reach their intended recipients." Even if you would prefer a watered-down version like, "No non-spam message should be INTENTIONALLY blocked", SpamCop's policy clearly violates that: Since complaints from their spam-victims don't seem to have any effect, perhaps complaints from their paying users will! SpamCop is making a deliberate attempt to use YOUR subscribers and YOU, against your will, to pressure third parties into doing what SpamCop orders them to do. Many other anti-spam organizations, frustrated at their lack of actual power to order people to do things, have used the same tactic. Perhaps it was Paul Vixie's MAPS that originated the tactic, blacklisting entire ISPs until they followed his orders. Furthermore, the third party involved is not even a spammer, and has probably never sent a single spam in their life! They merely run a server that forwards email to its destination. (Every router on the Internet also forwards email to its destination.) Congratulations again on being censored in order to apply pressure to such evil gnomes as these. John Gilmore ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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