[SpamCop-List] Re: Political spam -- a first for me

[Ant]

"D.F. Manno" <dommanno at netscape.net> wrote...
> Helgi Steindal <radstefnur at steindal.net.nospam> wrote:
>> D.F. Manno wrote:
>>
>>> Let me ask you a simple question: Do you think the government
>>> should outlaw unsolicited bulk e-mail regardless of content?
>>
>> yes
>
> Then we disagree. The Constitution forbids the government from
> interfering with political speech. If the cost of fighting spam is
> trashing the First Amendment, that's a price I'm not willing to pay.

If I put my email address on a web page, or in a newsgroup message,
it is there so that individuals may contact me about that page or
message. It is not there to be harvested for the purpose of bulk
mailing, be it commercial or otherwise.