On Wed, 28 May 2003, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
The ability to receive e-mail is not a Constitutional right.
The ability to stand outside someone's window and shout or play loud
music all night is not a constitutional right either. True, the U.S.
government may do that to torture its captives, but most citizens
would consider such activity to be an egregious abuse of 1st amendment
free speech rights.
That's how I think of spam...
-teg
p.s. For those who believe there is no signficant cost to spam, I'd
love to have you put your money where your mouth is. I've got plenty
of direct costs that are attributable soley to dealing with spam --and
that's not even counting the indirect costs of a "Type 1" spam storm
that brought the enterprise to its knees for two days and caused
legitimate email to be lost...
p.p.s. apologies to all for extending this futile debate; I tried
to control myself, but failed.