From: StanSqncrs <StanSqncrs@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 14:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Spam
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Thanks to Peter Trei for that bit of history.

In a message dated 5/7/98 10:26:48 AM Central Daylight Time, jim@mentat.com
writes:

<< I just wrote and snipped a long disquisition on the history of spam
starting
 with Clarence Thomas IV in 1993, having realized it's probably not relevant
to
 your interests ... >>

Actually, by the timing you describe, it would probably make it VERY relevant
to my interests.  I'd love to see it.


<< and old hat to everybody else.  Suffice it to say that spam
 does require extra resources to process, both in hardware and time.  We
resent
 it because the end user is paying for it rather than the advertiser, so there
 is no natural limit to the amount of crap they can pour on us. >>

But times have changed again.  Now the users have unlimited access.

BTW:  As I understand it, the corporations were given free-speech rights with
a bad Supreme Court decision back in the '20's, even though the constitution
only grants rights to "people" and "citizens" (14th amendment)

Stan