Tim May wrote:
>Patrick Henry wrote:
>>What could be done differently, in the absence of government laws, relative to
>>cleaning up the list? Would you cut spammers' hands off? That doesn't sound
>>very libertarian.
>The list owners are free to implement any policies they desire. They
>can insist that all articles be accompanied by GIFs of the authors
>standing on their heads. They can require that a magic word be
>included in all subject lines. They can shut off the list. They can
>restrict it to subscribers. The can demand PGP signatures of some
>sort.
>For someone who claims to have been on and off the list since 1994,
>it seems that remarkably little of its themes have sunk in on you.
>Are you just being obtuse?
Ok, I'm not comfortable arguing with the Great White Guru, but here goes. I
said that the spam problem was a true test of a minarchist society. You said
that it was not a true test of a minarchist society because we still have
government laws hanging over our head. I asked what you would do differently if
there were no laws. You then gave me a number of list management techniques
which have been discussed here in the past (and which I have read over and over
until I was blue in the face). But these techniques do not require the
suspension of current law to implement. Again, I ask you, how would you manage
the list differently if our current government disappeared? I know your answer
already: kill me and all the other obtuse list members. :)
--PH
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