[Legal] Re: Gilmore opinion on spam

[Maksim Otstavnov]

Hello Michael,

Saturday, March 02, 2002, 10:41:25 AM, you wrote:

MS> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:55:04PM +0300, Maksim Otstavnov wrote:
>> This overload problem is not unique to email; it will come up with
>> instant messaging, with phone calls, with postal mail, and with any
>> other medium whose costs drop and whose reach improves.  I'm sure the
MS> ...postal mail and (mostly) calling cost _will_ be paid by sender
MS> (caller) rather than by recipient, so they *never* become that
MS> burden.

Never received junk snaimail? Even during national/local elections? ;)

To my mind the "spam problem" mostly concerns drain of psychophiscal
resources of recipients, not proc cycles/bandwidth. The long-term
trend is lowering cost of the later and raising (at least relative) of
the first.

MS> And so I gracefully disagree on this part.  It's similar to that
MS> socialism is completely different in software and "the real world".

What's the beast, "socialism in software"? :)))

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