OSS, Sp*m and... most regrettably politics

[michael]

I found this in my spam trash can.  My ISP tags spam with the word spam and
I have anything with the subject line containing with word SPAM automaticly
tossed into it.  Maybe this group is just non-political or others have the
same mechanism setup.  



At 03:34 PM 6/14/04 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Hello Everyone,
>
>I'm afraid to even raise this point, politics are spooky, but has anyone 
>else noticed that the Green party has a policy on OSS and Spam?
>
>http://www.greenparty.ca/platform2004/en/policies.php?p=16
>
>IMHO it's slightly misguided as to the requirements for laws on a couple 
>points (forced transition and do-not-spam registries), but that's what 
>feedback is for :-)
>
>Has this always been the case?
>
>-Mike
>
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>Open Source Software	
>
>In this era of increasing technology dependence, both in business and in 
>daily life, software has become a vital economic resource. Software 
>applications must be trustworthy, reliable and easy-to-use. The Open 
>Source Movement is emerging as a competitive rival to privately 
>developed and marketed software, producing programs of equal or better 
>reliability and security.
>
>The Green Party will:
>
>     * Require federal agencies to initiate transitions to open source 
>operating systems and productivity software.
>     * Make technology that has been developed at public expense, a 
>publicly owned resource. Software that has been developed at taxpayer 
>expense will be released under an open source license, making it free 
>for all Canadians to use.
>     * Procure only software that stores, loads and transmits 
>information in industry standard formats, for which full technical 
>specifications are available. Procurement of systems that require closed 
>licenses or use vendor-specific formats would be used only if no 
>alternative is available.
>     * Shorten the length of software patents to seven years. The 
>software business cycle is so fast that longer patents only stifle 
>innovation.
>
>Canadian Spam Laws	
>
>In Canada, over ten billion junk e-mails are sent every year. The 
>federal government and the Canadian Radio-television and 
>Telecommunications Commission have yet to address this issue. While spam 
>is an international problem, Canada should start becoming part of the 
>solution, rather than part of the problem.
>
>The Green Party will create Anti-Spam laws with the following rules:
>
>     * E-mail marketers will be forced to identify themselves properly.
>     * Marketers must make their pitches honestly.
>     * Marketers must honour any person’s request to be removed from 
>their contact lists.
>     * Marketers must abide by a Canadian “do-not-spam” registry.
>     * CSIS will coordinate with the international law enforcement and 
>security agencies to crack down on the worst spammers.
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