> > OTOH, I would argue that spam isn't going to get fixed until there's a > > REASON for it. Money is frequently a pretty good motivator. Technical > > means need a sea change. > > It isn't going to come from government, either. It is more likely > that major ISPs throwing their weight behind a non-anonymous version > of SMTP will be the catalyst that gets things moving.
NO! We're being trained/conditioned/programmed to accept the inevitability of positive ID's to access the world of digital communications, but that is exactly the wrong solution. Our last vestige of freedom is freedom of speech, but that freedom will disappear once it's discovered that the authorities have been collecting everything you've ever posted, read or searched for on the Internet in a mountain somewhere - just waiting the final touch: that positive, legal linkback between stuff in that mountain and you. Don't you recall the expression that "he who runs the information runs the show"? It's true, and that kind of power belongs not to the best capitalists, but to the people who will live in and be governed by an information-centric world. I'm not arguing against capitalism. I do believe that if you work harder or smarter, you should be rewarded. What I am saying is that reward cannot extend into governance, because governance is the providence of the people governed. Maybe there never was a day when these were really twain, but today we're faced with the extinction of the entire concept of gov't of/by/for the people, and information is the sword. Bill > -- Ed Leafe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
