From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 14:25:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Shooting the taggers
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At 10:57 AM 8/22/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>There's a solution for taggers: snipers.
>(I'm indebted to Chip Morningstar for this succinct solution.)

I'm highly opposed to this inappropriate use of excess force.
Snipers with paint-guns?  Sure.  Snipers with rock-salt guns?  Perhaps.
Snipers with real bullets?  Sorry, it ain't worth murder.

On the other hand, the parallels between graffiti taggers and 
SPAMMERs are fairly direct...


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