EFF's response to Adam Goryachev

One of our board members - John Gillmore - (If you've heard of the "alt" 
news groups - John started alt and is one of the founders of EFF.) -

John says:

Our stated policy is that antispam measures' first goal should be to
deliver every non-spam message to its destination.  A particular
ramification of that is that if 26,000 EFFector subscribers ASKED to
get a message, and three did not, then delivery to that 26,000 should
NEVER be interrupted or blocked.  I.e. the same message can be "spam"
to one person, and a desired communication to another.  A blocking
measure which cannot tell WITH RESPECT TO A PARTICULAR RECIPIENT
whether a message is "spam" or "desired" should never block it.

Here's that micro-management demand from: Adam Goryachev:

>> I therefore formally request that the EFF show the public verifiable
>> evidence of each and every member of their newsletter having
>> requested to be on their mailing list. If you can't demonstrate that
>> EFF has verified every subscription address then the fault is with
>> the EFF and it should be blacklisted by anyone and everyone, and the
>> EFF is irresponsible. I am not interested in guesses and theories
>> that they "might" have subscribed themselves because they entered
>> some public knowledge data. I want to see the evidence.


I suggest that our response to this particular demand should be a
hearty "fuck you".

        John




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