[80704] in Cypherpunks
Re: SIGH Geiger clueless again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Wright)
Sun May 25 04:46:17 1997
From: "Ross Wright" <rwright@adnetsol.com>
To: Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer <cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>,
Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 01:02:25 -0700
Reply-To: "Ross Wright" <rwright@adnetsol.com>
On or About 24 May 97 at 22:42, Kent Crispin wrote:
> This is the conundrum of spam. It exploits a fundamental weakness
> in our communication protocols, and illustrates a fundamental
> philosophical problem in the realm of freedom of speech through a
> finite bandwidth communication channel -- what happens when someone
> uses their freedom of speech to overload the channel, thus
> interfering with everyone else's freedom of speech? (An information
> theoretic "tragedy of the commons".)
>
> Clearly, it seems to me, freedom of speech should not include the
> freedom to destroy others freedom of speech by overloading the
> channel.
There we go, full circle to what started this whole thread. And
quite well put. Seems as if EVERYONE is really clueless about this
one, not just WHG3.
> But to avoid this problem you need protocols that govern
> access to the channel...protocols which do not exist for email.
And we don't want those. I think. 1 am on a Saturday, and it's
really confusing. As long as I get to keep doing what it is I'm
doing, I'm happy.
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