[81367] in Cypherpunks
Re: Responses to "Spam costs and questions" (long)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Sat Jun 7 00:36:53 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 97 23:41:10 EDT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970606223724.14349A-100000@cp.pathfinder.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Declan McCullagh <declan@pathfinder.com> writes:
> -Declan
>
> (Who thinks that no consensual speech should be banned by the government.
If you set up your mailbox to accept e-mail promiscuously from anyone,
then anything sent to it is "consentual".
> I can, however, see a common law argument for spam as trespass after
> repeated cease-and-desist notes are sent.)
The onus is on the recipient to filter out what they don't want (or to
"filter in" only what they want, which is how I think we'll end up). Such
filtering takes less time+effort than "repeated cease-and-desist notes".
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