"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:44:55 -0800, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the
Dark
Remover" wrote:


"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:14:42 +0000, Mike Andrews wrote:

In
(rec.radio.amateur.homebrew), Rich Grise wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:39:33 -0800, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun,
the
Dark

Make everyone take the Boulder Pledge.

WTF "Boulder Pledge?"

Google can be _your_ friend, too.

"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to
me
as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I
forward
chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to
large
numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the
online community."

http://www.panix.com/~tbetz/boulder.shtml

Hmmm. Did you also read about the "CAN-SPAM" law? (Link at the
bottom
of the BP page).
http://www.angelfire.com/blues2/blowschunks/index.html

It seems Congress has not only de facto legalized spam, they're
even
overriding states' rights by pre-empting state anti-spam laws!

I can see you're another sheeple that hasn't learned to think for
himself.

Think about it: How can you 'legalize' something that had no prior
restrictions? Does what you said make any sense?

I agree that it was unwise to override some state laws, especially
since
Calif had just toughened the spam laws. But don't try to tell us
that
the law legalizes spam. The law puts restriction on spamming where
there were none before (nationally).

See my other post else-thread about my opinion of these alleged
"restrictions."

They only make it illegal to defraud, not to send out a hundred
million
totally honest advertising spams.

"They" in this case meaning the gov't. That's all that's possible to
restrict. If the restrictions were on honest spams, then the law would
be declared unconstitutional because it restricts free speech.

They don't care that there are
"restrictions" on "content" - it's still there clogging my inbox!

"They" in this case meaning spammers.

In a way, it's equivalent to commercials on free TV (and even cable,
these

No, it's not! Commercials in the media pay their fair share to the
media. Spammers, w/o permission, abuse services from the ISPs and our
inboxes without paying their fair share. Spammers are thieves.

[snip]

Thanks,
Rich