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Subject: Re: [Fwd: EFF Mailing List Query]
From: Bob Bish <bobbish @ earthlink . net>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:19:18 -0700
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <9781.1046038589@kanga.nu>
References: <Message from Bob Bish <bobbish@earthlink.net><5.2.0.9.2.20030223144457.00b7e008@pop.earthlink.net><3E590776.7050601@vo.cnchost.com><3E583DD9.8030705@vo.cnchost.com><20030223142626.GA20724@gsp.org><3E590776.7050601@vo.cnchost.com><5.2.0.9.2.20030223144457.00b7e008@pop.earthlink.net>

At 03:16 PM 2/23/2003, J C Lawrence wrote:
>The point where the confusion seems to enter is that email is not a
>subscriber business.  To send email to a node doesn't require a prior
>relationship asides from simple IP routability.  As such the sender of
>an email _is_ trespassing, knowingly, and with conscious intent.
>However, the critical difference between spam and other email is that
>one has the reasonable if generic expectation of being welcomed by the
>recipient.

    Then you'd better start fighting junk mail and telephone solicitors as 
well.

...Bob



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