[24814] in Cypherpunks
Re: San Francisco Editorial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Cooper)
Wed Jan 4 19:32:26 1995
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 19:11:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Jonathan Cooper <entropy@IntNet.net>
To: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Qj2fAKT0Eyt5BUJxh8@nsb.fv.com>
> A letter to the editor is like spitting into the wind in this case. I
> think what's needed is a more constructive affirmative action, ideally
> taking Cantor and Siegel to court somewhere.
Perhaps it's my libertarian outlook, perhaps not, but I tend to abhor
using the US government's ``legal'' system for almost any reason.
The worst thing about doing this (suing them), IMHO, is that if you
lost you would create a precedent for all the people who aren't doing it
because they might consider it illegal or immoral -- far too many people
consider things that the court okays to be morally okay.
Instead, I think it's a great stimulus for better software - there's
no reason to sue them when it'd be a better thing for the community if
newsreaders and mailreaders were enhanced to deal with spams.
-jon
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