[SpamCop-List] Re: make love not spam

[Mike Easter]

Jeff wrote:
>> Anybody see this yet?
>>
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/02/anti.spamvigi.ap/index.html
>
> OOPS!  I guess so.  It's under a different subject.  sorry...

Actually, it is a pretty dynamic subject right now so there are going to
be a lot of articles and commentary various places including multiple
slashdot articles.

Here's a recent quote from one of the many articles which arise on
googlenews 'Lycos' search.

"I would have to characterize it as an astonishingly stupid idea," said
John Levine, co-chair of the Internet Research Task Force's Antispam
Research Group.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,97990p2,00.html
<makeoneline>

I think I like that quote the best so far, but I'm still looking for
some more juicy ones.

For individuals to surreptitiously pursue some kind of antispam
vigilantism is one thing;  then to promote that activity in antispam
groups is another thing but not so 'good' or healthy;  but for a
'corporate' entity to openly promote it and foster and pursue it is
dumbsh*t, as we say in Texas and a few other 'opensource' language
places.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin