From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 22 12:33:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA27712 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 12:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA27703 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 12:33:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA17299; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:36:12 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 13:36:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: jbryant@tfs.net cc: Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Join Cauce.. Re: Get more visitors! In-Reply-To: <199708221639.LAA02587@argus.tfs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Jim Bryant wrote: > actually congress compounded the problem by not legislating against > junk email when the bill was before them this year, but then what do > you expect out of conservatives... > > it's sitting there acting like sheep that compounds the problem... > the "oh i'll just ignore it until it goes away" attitude just doesn't > work. it didn't work with hitler, it didn't work with our > conservative congress either. > > the only way to remove junk email from the net, until legislation > making such illegal is in place, it to simply fight fire with fire, > even if it logjams the entire freaking internet. > > don't write to me, write to your freaking congressman. Or join the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email. They are a legit professional organization which is lobbying and contacting congressmen everywhere to get the changes signed. I strongly suggest signing up with them: www.cauce.org -Brandon Gillespie (Sorry for the irrelevantness of this post, but this organization can always use more support).