[66537] in Cypherpunks
Re: More proposals for European censorship
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale Thorn)
Thu Sep 26 01:55:44 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 22:42:22 -0700
From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
To: PhneCards@aol.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
PhneCards@aol.com wrote:
> Did you know this company is using your email address as part of
> an unlawful email bomb?
I signed up for this Internet service through GTE. I haven't got the
foggiest idea what a "email bomb" is, nor do I care. I can't possibly
be doing anything illegal by logging on to this service and receiving
and posting email to cypherpunks, and if someone else is, why are you
telling me?
> I would advise you to write to them at cypherpunks@toad.com
> and owner-cypherpunks@toad.com and advise them to stop
> using your email address for this type of activity.
I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe if you dropped the
"Computerese" and wrote in plain English, I could understand what you're
saying. Are you saying (by analogy) that if someone posted my picture
on a milk carton claiming I was lost, that I'd have to write someone a
letter of explanation to say I wasn't lost? And how do I *really* know
I'm not lost, anyway? I'd prefer that you just leave me alone.
> It is illegal to use a invalid return email address. If this
> continues, I will
> be forced to prosecute the return email address - which they are
> making to look like you.
Well, this is all quite fascinating, but it's not what I signed up for.
Are you suggesting that I would be obliged to witness against someone?
I've been in court before, and I know how lawyers like to insist on Yes
or No answers, but it rarely works for me. I just get so confused....
> Below is the letter that I received in my email box
> In a message dated 96-09-25 13:58:31 EDT, you write:
> >Subj: Re: More proposals for European censorship
> >Date: 96-09-25 13:58:31 EDT
> >From: dthorn@gte.net (Dale Thorn)
> >Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
> >To: asgaard@Cor.sos.sll.se (Asgaard)
> >CC: cypherpunks@toad.com
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