On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Anonymous wrote:
>Fuck, no traffic on cpunks except this ...
>
>>Actually, it is the U.S. Postal Service. Officials there are planning
>>to offer people living at all 120 million of the nation's residential
>>street addresses free e-mail addresses. It would link the e-mail and
>
>- there is no technology known to man that can force user
>to check the POP mailbox that he is not interested in.
Try completely ignoring your paper mail sometime and see how
long it is before you're in trouble with the law for missing
a jury duty summons or a bill or some legal action or other.
There is lots of precedent that sending something by US Postal
service constitutes legal notification.
Someone will come up with the bright idea of according the
same status to US postal emails, and then you won't be able
to ignore your USPS email account without getting into trouble
with the law. And the one who came up with the idea will get
promoted for saving millions of dollars a year!
>- Spamming those who believe in "free" accounts is good, because
>there is some chance that it will eliminate them from the gene pool.
No one has yet died of spam, one case of an irate recipient
murdering a spammer notwithstanding. That case was evidence
that *sending* spam may eliminate some from the gene pool,
but *recieving* spam has not yet been demonstrated to have
any such effect.
>- This may even ease the spamming load on those with paid accounts.
The only thing that really reduces the spam load on any email
account that you actually use for public fora or publish on the
web is a good procmail script or equivalent.
>Therefore, I suggest that we support this by all means.
With all due respect, you are wrong.
Bear
