Re: Turning Razor into a censorship tool

Marc Perkel wrote:

> My point is - being flagged as spam by razor is like being convicted 
> of a crime without and accuser or without evidence. I don't think that 
> Razor can determine if they had to - how it is that EFF was censored. 
> I am also pointing out that I suspect that Razor doesn't have the 
> ability to even know how it is being used/abused and does not give a 
> damn about if they are being used as a tool to block free speech.


Oh bollocks.

razor isn't censoring you; It's providing an indication to others that 
SOMEONE considers your newsletter to be spam. End of story.

I haven't been using Razor for longer thna a year already and even I 
know that. Cleanup your lists, be a nice person and live with it.

Time to *plonk* you I think.

H

> I use Razor myself as part of spam assassin and it does a good job 
> generally when it comes to real spam. But when it comes to free speech 
> newsletters it does a very poor job. From what I see it looks like 
> Razor is a threat to free speech in it's current form.
>
> Razor appears from a technical perspective to be very flawed and very 
> exploitable - and is actually being exploited by people who don't want 
> free speech to occur,
>
> Paul Oehler wrote:
>
> > Marc, you seem to think that Razor owes you an explanation of why 
> > your newsletter was identified as Spam.  I'm not sure that they owe 
> > you any explanation at all.  Furthermore, I don't even know if it is 
> > possible with the system.  Maybe it is irresponsible (a matter to 
> > debate) but surely not illegal to withhold this information, assuming 
> > they have it.  Although who knows with the DMCA...  Somehow I'm not 
> > too concerned about the EFF invoking that law though... ;-)


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