Re: Bouncing Spam

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Jason wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Ross wrote:
>> Junk/Spam/etc. I generalize it as junk. I can appreciate the cost in system 
>> bandwidth, time, programming, labor, etc., My focus was only to leave the 
>> govt out of it. They will only make it worse & that will backfire on all of 
>> us.

> Bashing government has become the national pastime but if you really think 
> about it they do a pretty good job more often than most people are willing to 
> admit.  Look around the rest of the world for countless examples.  Our system 
> is *far* from perfect but it is pretty damned good.

Empire on the Potomac has shown a track record. Your sugar 
coating does not change my mind, based on that track record & my 
experience. The govt is not the solution to the problem, the govt 
is or will become the problem.

> That said if everyone in this list stopped sending spam to the government 
> there are many thousands of people and businesses asking them to do something 
> about the problem.  Sending real examples of spam should help them get a 
> handle on the reality of the issue.  Imagine if they decided to do something 
> about spam with only a small sample.

I have imagined & it scares me!
Leave the govt out of the problem!

> Henry David Thoreau - (1817-1862) Writer, Lecturer

"Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, 
but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not 
keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not 
educate. The character inherent in the American people has done 
all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat 
more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way."
;
"I heartily accept the motto, `That government is best which governs
least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and
systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I
believe--`That government is best which governs not at all'; and when
men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which
they will have." - from essay issued as Civil Disobedience (1866)

This is too far off topic for this forum - good day.

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RossARR
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