[21802] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digital Bill of Rights
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Allisat)
Fri Nov 20 07:34:15 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 06:11:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Bob Allisat <bob@fcn.net>
To: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9811191313470.1865-100000@dqc.org>
Chris Cappuccio writes:
> Bob, I see this in your digital bill of rights:
>
> The right to protection, should we so choose, from mail bombing,
> automatic mailers, large, unrequested file or data transfers and
> similar harassments.
>
> How does the RBL violate this? I agree with most judgments made
> by the RBL team. I subscribe. End of story... If someone can't
> send me junk mail, I still feel pretty free. If someone tries to
> send legitimate mail and it fails, best of luck, hotmail exists
It violates this because it is,
for the most part, involuntary.
Furthermore it is a violation
of certain fundamental principles
of freedom of association and
communications besides being a
kind of repulsive and rather
juvenille vigilante activity
in response to the rather messy
liberties of a democracy. I *do*
have the right to send flyers
in an election to my constituents.
I *do* have the right to mail
announcments to my neighbours.
*No-one* have the right to
interfere with these lawful
activities in a civil society.
You are all - Vixie foremost -
degrading into envelope steaming,
mail trashing creeps. hardly
the society I want to see for
the digital age.
Bob Allisat
Free Community Network _ bob@fcn.net . http://fcn.net
http://fcn.net/allisat _ http://fcn.net/draft
