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   Depends on how people feel about the viagra spams

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 19th, 2003 @ 6:21am

   
   

   I imagine that some people feel that the viagra spams are pornographic because of the vocabulary. And automatic spam analyzers would count them as porn for that reason.

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   Where's the consistency?

   

   Brian J., Jul 20th, 2003 @ 4:53pm

   
   

   I find it inconsistent that many people who fight tooth and nail against an increase in government power, and an ill-considered one that will lead to interpretations and prosecution beyond the original intent, when it's designed to cut down on real illegal activity (theft of copyright materials) favor an increase in government power to fight a minor inconvenience in unsolicited e-mail.
   I'm not in favor of zealous government persecution in either case; some copyright theft will occur and some spam will happen, and our government law enforcement should recognize it has better things to do, like investigating and preventing assault, battery, murder, kidnapping, and other hard crimes.

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   Re: Where's the consistency?

   

   Mike (profile), Jul 20th, 2003 @ 8:57pm

   
   

   Don't know if that's directed at me, but I'm not in favor of anti-spam legislation. I've stated that I doubt it will do any good. If anything, it will be misused, like the DMCA and will be used by someone to stop legitimate emails from being sent.

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   Re: Where's the consistency?

   

   Purple Cow, Sep 19th, 2004 @ 8:12pm

   
   

   The point of government is to follow the people's wishes... therefore if we want legislation banning spam, which puts a severe overhead on e-traffic, fine. If we want government to stay out of every other facet of our lives, that's fine too. The two ideas do not conflict.
   
   It's not a question of "more legislation" or "less legislation" than "Where do we want legislation to be judiciously used?"

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