Re: Razor Censoring EFF's Newsletter

On Thursday 27 February 2003 05:38 pm, Marc Perkel wrote:
> To continue to repeat myself - show me where the complainer is a person
> who is receiving email that they didn't subscribe to and I will remove
> that person from the list. EFF has an opt-in system and an easy way to
> opt-out.
>
Mark,

The very fact that I could subscribe someone without their knowledge to 
effector is an indication that while you take freedom of speech very 
seriously, you fail to take into account that some people might not want to 
hear what you are saying.  Actually I got their permission for the 
experiment.

The point is that peole have a right to control access to their mailbox.  It 
is theirs, after all.  Collaberative efforts to control spam are not 
unwarranted.  Not everyone runs a server like we do that has over 27,000 
restrictions against specific email addresses, domains, IP addresses, IP 
blocks an even top-level domains to block entire countries.  When we restrict 
something from our network, it doesn't get in.  Yet, we use Razor, DCC, Pyzor 
and a number of RBLs in a different manner.  Mail flagged by external sources 
is quarantined and examined before permitting it to pass.  If people use 
these external collaberative aids foolishly, that can't be helped.  Razor and 
similar services don't block anything.  
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