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1997-05-27 - Re: Spam IS Free Speech

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From: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
To: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk (Paul Bradley)
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Reply To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970522182630.712B-100000@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
UTC Datetime: 1997-05-27 07:08:50 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 15:08:50 +0800

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From: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 15:08:50 +0800
To: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk (Paul Bradley)
Subject: Re: Spam IS Free Speech
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In list.cypherpunks, paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk writes:

> You are forgetting the 998348934th ammendment of the US constitution:
>
> Congress shall make no law infringing the right of the people to kidnap 
> megaphone owners...

The 1st one begins with "Congress shall make no law", and that's quite
enough.  The US government is forbidden to interfere in matters of
speech. (yah, I know this doesn't seem to slow 'em down much) You're
right that a sendmail (or other process vulnerable to subversion) should
protect itself.  My fear is that our benevolent protectorate will
_require_ such precautions, because that concedes the duty to provide
other precautions as the law might require.
- -- 
           Roy M. Silvernail     [ ]     roy@scytale.com
DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division
PGP Public Key fingerprint =  31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54  13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6
                 Key available from pubkey@scytale.com
            I charge to process unsolicited commercial email

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