Re: SIGH Geiger clueless again

["Ross Wright" <rwright@adnetsol.com>]

On or About 24 May 97 at 22:42, Kent Crispin wrote:

> This is the conundrum of spam.  It exploits a fundamental weakness
> in our communication protocols, and illustrates a fundamental
> philosophical problem in the realm of freedom of speech through a
> finite bandwidth communication channel -- what happens when someone
> uses their freedom of speech to overload the channel, thus
> interfering with everyone else's freedom of speech? (An information
> theoretic "tragedy of the commons".)
> 
> Clearly, it seems to me, freedom of speech should not include the
> freedom to destroy others freedom of speech by overloading the
> channel. 

There we go, full circle to what started this whole thread.  And 
quite well put.  Seems as if EVERYONE is really clueless about this 
one, not just WHG3.

> But to avoid this problem you need protocols that govern
> access to the channel...protocols which do not exist for email.

And we don't want those.  I think.  1 am on a Saturday, and it's 
really confusing.  As long as I get to keep doing what it is I'm 
doing, I'm happy.

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