[75538] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EFF whitepaper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon Nov 15 15:45:03 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:44:32 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041115160108.GA16048@hesketh.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 11/15/04, Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com> wrote:
> That said, I've long since stopped listening (or contributing) to the EFF
> as I see their war on antispammers as counterproductive. John Gilmore runs
> a well-known open relay at toad.com, and for some reason thinks that free,
> anonymous speech is important enough to let spammers drown it out through
> sheer volume. I prefer having usable email, so I no longer support the EFF.
While I continue to be saddened by this, I have to agree. The
EFF has done amazing, necessary work on so many issues, and I
thank them for that -- but they've been blaming the wrong people
regarding spam for many years.
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J.D. Falk okay, what's next?
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