Good point. Now convince me there are more than 176 million pounds of them being thrown out in the U.S. alone.
Sure, let's come up with better recycling & disposal methods for common things like CDs. Let's take the cost of disposal into account. But let's go after the big offenders.
One quote: "We allow images of consensual sex in our cinemas, but not images of bestiality or child abuse. Why should the net be any different?"
We allow people to mail potentially offensive or incriminating photos to each other. We don't open everyone's mail to check for the presence of images of bestiality or child abuse, so why should the net be any different?
The problem with spam isn't spam itself. It's that it's designed to be difficult to filter out.
Not true. The problem is that there's so much of it. That message traffic costs your ISP even if you don't see it.
Howard Dean is praised for exploiting the internet to build his campaign. Now you're whining that they would dare use e-mail.
Just using email isn't a problem. These politicians are sending spam (unsolicited bulk email), in this case inviting people to join their mailing lists.
You want people to vote for you or join your mailing list? Don't piss them off by spamming. Put a link on your web page, there are plenty of ways to do it besides spamming.
It's a public medium. Anyone can use it.... How many voters gave out e-mail addresses?... I wouldn't call it spamming when you volunteer your e-mail address. That's "opt-in."
Repeat after me: Putting my email address on my home page is not an invitation to be spammed. Posting to Usenet or a mailing list is not an invitation to be spammed. Having a listed telephone is not an invitation for telemarketers. Having a home address is not an invitation to receive junk mail.
Opt-in is when I ask to receive mail. Spamming people to invite them to join a mailing list is still spamming. UBE is spam even if the politicians decide to exempt themselves from the legal definitions of spam.
If there is impropriety, the ballots have already been neatly stacked by the ballot boxes (they work kind of like ATMs do with your deposit) so they can be reread at high speed by recount machines
No! That just brings up the same issue of how to verify that the *recount* machines are working properly. There needs to be some provision for a recount to be done manually, however long that might take. That's the important point about having a paper trail.
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Good point. Now convince me there are more than 176 million pounds of them being thrown out in the U.S. alone.
Sure, let's come up with better recycling & disposal methods for common things like CDs. Let's take the cost of disposal into account. But let's go after the big offenders.
Not true. The problem is that there's so much of it. That message traffic costs your ISP even if you don't see it.
Just using email isn't a problem. These politicians are sending spam (unsolicited bulk email), in this case inviting people to join their mailing lists.
You want people to vote for you or join your mailing list? Don't piss them off by spamming. Put a link on your web page, there are plenty of ways to do it besides spamming. Repeat after me: Putting my email address on my home page is not an invitation to be spammed. Posting to Usenet or a mailing list is not an invitation to be spammed. Having a listed telephone is not an invitation for telemarketers. Having a home address is not an invitation to receive junk mail.
Opt-in is when I ask to receive mail. Spamming people to invite them to join a mailing list is still spamming. UBE is spam even if the politicians decide to exempt themselves from the legal definitions of spam.
What else is she teaching them? How to install trojans and spyware?