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1997-08-06 - Re: bulk postage fine (was Re: non-censorous spam control)

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Message Hash: f7a357c68eb71809361dfc3db68e2d2c63b8d98acf3baf1d1c6919ed3f24a8b8
Message ID: <19970806075802.12530@bywater.songbird.com>
Reply To: <199708030302.XAA08565@cti06.citenet.net>
UTC Datetime: 1997-08-06 15:14:49 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:14:49 +0800

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 23:14:49 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: bulk postage fine (was Re: non-censorous spam control)
In-Reply-To: <199708030302.XAA08565@cti06.citenet.net>
Message-ID: <19970806075802.12530@bywater.songbird.com>
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On Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 12:29:37PM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
> Here's the sequence of events as I see it:
> 
>  1. spammer spams you with adverisement for phone sex line
>  2. you try to sue phone sex line company
>  3. phone sex company denies all knowledge
>  4. government says all email must be authenticated 
>  5. government issues internet drivers license
>  6. anonymous remailers work around authentication requirement
>  7. government outlaws remailers
> 
> See any flaws in that logical and undesirable sequence of events?

The flaws become apparent if you try to attach a *realistic*
probability to each step.

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
PGP fingerprint:   B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44  61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55
http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html

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