Re: My email is rejected by some sites

From: Colin Watson (cjwatson_at_debian.org)
Date: 12/16/03

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    On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:34:03PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote:
    > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:08 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
    > > A mailserver can harm _others_.
    >
    > I totally agree. Which is why I'm all for only allowing arbitrary
    > entities to determine who can and can not run a mail server. What we
    > need is more control, more censorship, more penalties, and less
    > interference from subvertive terrorists who try to route their mail
    > around the system. The only reason they have to be doing something like
    > this would be if they had something to hide. I believe that their
    > computers should be confiscated and their citizenship revoked.

    Let's turn this around: why should *I* be forced to accept mail coming
    from a dynamic IP, when statistically such mail appears much more likely
    to be spam or viruses? Who are you to tell me that I have to accept such
    mail?

    (If it's not obvious why direct mail from dynamic IP addresses is a
    favourite tool of spammers, it should be.)

    This is *not* censorship, by the way. Censorship is when the government
    represses your speech. Assuming you're American (I'm not), you have a
    right to free speech, but that does not imply having a right to force
    other people to publish or listen to your speech. People need to stop
    misusing the term.

    > Oh yes, and blacks to the back of the bus, please; just be happy we let
    > you on at all.

    It's a weak argument that requires a comparison to racism to be heard,
    not to mention that it demeans the plight of those affected by racism.

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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