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Re: Responses to "Spam costs and questions" (long)
Declan McCullagh <[email protected]> writes:
> -Declan
>
> (Who thinks that no consensual speech should be banned by the government.
If you set up your mailbox to accept e-mail promiscuously from anyone,
then anything sent to it is "consentual".
> I can, however, see a common law argument for spam as trespass after
> repeated cease-and-desist notes are sent.)
The onus is on the recipient to filter out what they don't want (or to
"filter in" only what they want, which is how I think we'll end up). Such
filtering takes less time+effort than "repeated cease-and-desist notes".
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<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
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