On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
You're comparing apples and oranges.
Yeah, I know. :-)
- If you ask so, you're visible and not hiding behind a fake name.
I could be disguised.
- You do not cause the other any costs.
You could be in a hurry.
- You're not getting asked 20 times a day.
It's not *my* fault if 19 other people ask you.
- Spam doesn't ask "how do I get to".
That's true.
Imagine you're sitting at home and 20 times a day people
come into your living room asking you to buy penis enlargement
devices. Is this still covered by the right to do anonymous
communication?
No, because I have to live in my home, and the law recognizes a
person's home as a special private area. But I don't have to use
e-mail.
Actually, if you're providing commercial services or do
advertising, you have to do this in europe. Over here, people
have the freedom and right to now where to complain.
That is a good idea. Contrary to what others have said, I don't
believe anyone has the right to anonymous spamming, and I don't
believe the US Constitution says that they do. But I still think
anonymous (or at least non-authenticated) person-to-person e-mail has
its place.
But if I want to use e-mail, I'm forced to pay?
Yes, pretty much.
I have the choice only between paying and not using e-mail
at all? Do you call that freedom?
Do you get free phone service? It's the cost of doing business; sorry.
Stores build shoplifting costs into their prices. Is that fair on the
majority of us who don't shoplift?
--
David.
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