Re: [silk] off on my "the EFF is clueless about spam issues" hobby horse, again.

2006-02-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Madhu M Kurup [09/02/06 12:26 -0800]: http://blog.unitedheroes.net/archives/p/2055/ This is weirdly enough an operational model that actually makes sense to me in the email context. Whether this is the Penny Black[1] of our times is easily up for grabs. Making one of these models scale and b

Re: [silk] off on my "the EFF is clueless about spam issues" hobby horse, again.

2006-02-09 Thread Madhu M Kurup
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 22:38 -0800, Brian McNett wrote: > The whole thing is rather little more than a tempest in a teapot. > As srs and you have noted, much ado about nothing. Here's another URL that on similar lines: http://blog.unitedheroes.net/archives/p/2055/ This is weirdly enough an ope

Re: [silk] off on my "the EFF is clueless about spam issues" hobby horse, again.

2006-02-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Brian McNett wrote: > > Back on the topic of EFF's stance on Goodmail, they've been out of step > on email and spam issues ever since John Gilmore had his mailserver > listed by MAPS as an open relay (It was, intentionally, and he refused > to close it, which nearly cost him his hosting). While I'

Re: [silk] off on my "the EFF is clueless about spam issues" hobby horse, again.

2006-02-09 Thread Brian McNett
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 06:18, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >: host frodo.hserus.net[204.74.68.40] said: 550 > > Administrative Prohibition - See > > http://spamblock.outblaze.com/67.188.111.216 (in reply to RCPT What's Danny doing running an MTA on a Comcast IP (dynamically allocated), when C

Re: [silk] off on my "the EFF is clueless about spam issues" hobby horse, again.

2006-02-09 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Danny O' Brien, of NTK, and lately of EFF, attempting to respond to Suresh. I think this is an important discussion to have, and silk might be a good place... Udhay Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:28:39 -0800 From: Danny O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [silk] Cartoon Row

2006-02-09 Thread Badri Natarajan
> > In India, of course, "free speech" carries terms and conditions. A cartoon > like that could land one in jail. > Read: http://eastwords.blogspot.com/2006/02/publish-and-be-damned_06.html Free speech carries "terms and conditions" everywhere. There is no such thing as an absolute right to free

[silk] Always on your mind

2006-02-09 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Also see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0001939B-A724-1353-A72483414B7F for some more on a related note. Udhay http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5195551 Babies' Cells Linger, May Protect Mothers Morning Edition, February 8, 2006 ยท Some scientists have propos