We've seen this before: "Congresscritters turning off their email inboxes" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04211.html "FTC turns to oft-unreliable blacklists to limit spam" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04199.html Also note: http://www.savecalifornia.com/ccffreespeech.cfm >CCF's email lobbying system is working again (as of 7:30pm PST, Jan. 17, >2003). We have increased its reliability to deliver your email messages to >state legislators. Please keep sending "no new taxes" email messages and >calling legislators by phone. We need the pro-family, anti-tax movement to >keep growing! -Declan --- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:15:35 -0500 To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> From: Neil Schwartzman <neilat_private> Subject: and more political reaction to spam ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" So let me get this right ... if it is outgoing, it is "permission-based desirable email". If it is incoming it is "spam"? January 20, 2003 Calif. Legislature Blocks Pro-family E-mail By Stuart Shepard, correspondent http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0024212.html After a deluge of e-mail calling for no new taxes, the California Legislature has blocked messages sent via one pro-family group. Is it just spam or speech protected by the First Amendment? Recently, constituents of Campaign for California Families swamped legislators with e-mail calling for no new taxes. According to CCF Director Randy Thomasson: "The volume of response, because of the people's anger about the threat of higher taxes, was high." -- Neil Schwartzman, peteMOSS Publications My hot teenaged toner cartridge does not need an herbal extension to her Nigerian horsie mortgage, no matter what you say. Thanks anyway. <http://spamNEWS.com><http://peteMOSS.com><http://spamFLAMES.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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