[PLUG] House Passed the Anti-Spam Bill

[Jason Van Cleve]

Quoth Jeme A Brelin, on Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:15:39 -0800 (PST):

> [Of course, the CORRECT approach is to ban all private advertisement
> and use public funds to pay for equal time/position for each
> registered candidate in each medium... but that won't fly as long as
> money rules the day. -- This should be followed up on plug-talk, of
> course.]

You probably mean it should have been POSTED on plug-talk.

> And is there any reason why all this spam talk is somehow magically
> ON-topic to all you folks who bitch about off-topic posts?  Perhaps

Well, many of us here maintain email servers on Linux.  Spam bears upon such systems directly (not to mention on almost every other modern computer system).

> plug could sponsor a spam-discuss list (plug-spam?) in order to divert
> some of this crud from the inbox of those who have better things to do
> than sludge through email on this topic.

Sometimes your hypocrisy impresses me, Brelin.  I certainly haven't time to go back and tally up the number of your OT posts, but apply any cast-the-first-stone metaphor here.

I think spam is very relevant to a Linux discussion list, thanks.

--Jason Van Cleve

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