Above all, think this through: Why is spam so annoying?
Because you like the ease and convenience of e-mail, that's why.
So your in box matters to you. Over the last decade it has become
hugely easier and quicker for you to contact others on a much bigger
scale than photocopied letters or even fax machines ever let us dream of.
And you resent the fact that hundreds of thousands of nobodies now find
it correspondingly easier to contact you? This is worse than snobbery; this
is "access greed": wanting to have access to others for yourself but
for them
not to have access to you.
This is the dirty secret of the anti-spammers.
You want free speech for yourselves, and perhaps
for others sometimes -- as long as you don't have to
listen too often. Even listening for the 30 seconds it
takes to delete a bunch of uninvited petitions is
apparently too much for these people.
Free speech -- as long as it has a nice, secure one-way valve attached?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/11/14/spam_love/index.html
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