--- John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sidney Brooks writes: > > Surely, I am not the only person who has thought > that spam is a tool for > > attacking the U. S. (yes to some this will seem > provincial) by crippling > > what has become a major means of communication. > > Much if not most spam originates in the US. So what? Where it originates doesn't matter, it is the purpose.
> > yes to some this will seem provincial > > It is. People outside the US get as much spam as we > do. > > > It can also be a tool to repress ideas that you > don't agree with, e.g. if > > someone writes a message in favor of abortion or > against it to the New > > York Times, the other side can pick up his address > and spam him. > > That's not spam. That's just a DOS attack. > If after I post an opinion on the NYT web site, I get a lot of unsolicited email, I don't care if you call it a DOS attack or I call it spam. You say potayto, I say potahto. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
