Re: Spam Police

[murr rhame]

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Byron C. Howes wrote:


> Your right of free speech, by the way, does not include the right
> to use my press -- which is what spamming effectively does.

Yup.  Put another way, you have the right to speak.  You don't have
the right to hijack a captive audience and force them to listen.
Same principle applies to off-topic posts on some mailing lists.


- murr -