Re: bgSEC distributes bastion-firewall under the GPL license

From: Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez (jkerouac_at_bgsec.com)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:49:31 +0200

James Knott wrote:

> Maybe not directly, but you do normally pay for internet access and the ISP
> pays for servers and bandwidth, out of your access fees. So, even if there
> isn't a line item, you're still paying for it. Someone, somewhere always
> has to pay for carrying that spam and storing it on servers etc. It's
> usually not the spammer. This is also the reason for those fax spam laws.
> They were passed, because the victim was being forced to pay for
> advertising he doesn't want.
>

As I said before, in the groups I use to read and post the announce of
the release of a new free software project it's not considered spam
at all. Maybe I'ts just a matter of different netiquette between
groups, but telling someone who has worked very hard in a project that
announcing the release of his work in a public newsgroup and asking
for people to collaborate in the project is spam is at least not
very considerated. Maybe my concept of nettiquete differs from
others, but I find the constant flame wars and trolls I usually
download with my one euro an hour connection at home are bad
netiquette, not my message. 

-- 
Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Director Tecnico de bgSEC
jkerouac@bgsec.com
bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
http://www.bgsec.com
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