[atlarge-discuss] Re: FC: Brad Templeton on ePrivacy Group's antispam plan and anonymity

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Declan, Brad, and all,

  Good point's of significant, yet often overlooked reality in your
comments and/or remarks below Brad.  The propensity of applying
the concepts of the paper based practice to the ecommerce
IT world is indeed not reasonable or even practically possible.
Yet we are still faced with some that are relative newbies
or unfamiliar to the Internet and ecommerce part of the world..
p
Declan McCullagh wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:37:15 -0700
> From: Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com>
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
> Cc: vs@eprivacygroup.com
> Subject: Re: FC: ePrivacy Group's idea: "Trusted Email Open Standard"
> Organization: http://www.templetons.com/brad
>
> Does nobody see the irony in an org calling itself the "ePrivacy group"
> advocating a system where everybody has to identify themselves in order
> to communicate?
>
> It should be noted that even though the physical postal service can
> and has delivered anonymous mail to people containing anthrax and
> bombs that actually _kill_ people -- making spam seem a non-issue in
> comparison -- it is still possible to mail a letter and even a small
> package without having to identify yourself in any way.
>
> I hardly think that in the electronic space, where we have so many
> other options besides regimented identification, that we should be
> unlikely to lead the way beyond paper mail's rules!
>
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