Anti spam solutions

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:59:55 -0400 (EDT)
"Kareem Shehata" <kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> I do have a major problem with this.  We're taking a technology that
> could enable everyone on the planet to collaborate together, and
> because of a few miscreants, we'll add a brick wall.  The end result
> will be that corporations that can afford to pay the initial costs
> will be able to send just as much spam as before, but individuals who
> want to run a mailing list will be screwed.  Have you noticed the
> amount of junk mail you get in your physical mailbox?  We're facing
> the same thing here.  Putting an artificial price tag won't do
> anything except hurt the end user 

Agreed, this is exactly what the corporate warlords want, is to shut out
the end-user from all attempts to modify content on the internet, and
make it, as I and many others have described it many times, a "content
delivery system", another version of TV.

Charging people per-mail is one step in that direction, and as Kareem
rightly points out, is punishing the wrong people. The ability to
send/upload/modify ought to be universal and free, if it is to work for
good (ie. a community of equals, the only truly workable communicative
structure) instead of evil (ie. an ideological and one-way stream of
bullshit).

As the Discordians say, true communication is only possible between
equals, and if you start putting a premium on that communication, it
becomes by definition unequal. It is already unequal enough, in that
only a few million of us have the resources to go "online", let's not
make it more so.

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