OT: The new total email scam from Yahoo...

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:32:04 -0500):
>[...]
>> > Some of the primary supports of CAN-SPAM were Microsoft and Yahoo,
>> > large ISPs who wanted to insure that it was legal for them to spem
>> > their users.
>>
>> Yep; they CAN SPAN.  :-)
>>
>> But as for Yahoomail and the like, I believe the terms of service,
>> which no one ever reads, require you to grant them permission to ad-tag
>> your messages.
>[...]
>
>There's gotta be something wrong with "I hereby grant you permission to
>send ads to other people".  I expect free e-mail accounts to require the
>person with the free account to see ads, but I don't expect someone else
>to be able to give "my" permission to receive them.

This gets to the crux of the matter.

I can't give you permission to steal for me.

If something is wrong/illegal for one person to do to another, then it's
equally wrong for a group of people (e.g. a government) to to the same
thing no matter how many individuals vote for it.

     ``But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply.
     See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them,
     and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See
     if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by
     doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a
     crime.'' -- Frederic Bastiat, The Law

Bill
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