Three Lefts

On 05 Mar 2008 19:10:12 GMT, "C.Joseph S. Drayton" <csdcs@tlerma.com>
wrote:

>I have to start by saying that I hate spam as much as most people.
>
>Unforutnately, the implications of this ruling are going to create a
>lot of argument and discussion.
>
>About 20 years ago, you could tell your mailperson that you did not
>want any mail that did not have your name on it. Bulk mail advertizers
>had a fit. Their position was that what the Post Office doing that was
>'restraint of trade'. The USPS capitulated. Since then my mail box
>always has unsolicited ads and flyers in it. Even my 'private mail box'
>refuses to block mail addressed to 'resident' pieces of mail.
>
>I hate spam, but where does my right to be left alone 'end' and where
>does a retailers right to market their goods 'begin'.

In a society that is not run by commercial special interests, your
right to block unwanted mail, ermail, phone calls, doorbell rings,
etc., would be 100% up to you -- with the exception of police and fire
people and the like.

In this society, if you do not have money to donate to (ie, purchase)
a politician, you have no rights, so find something useful to do with
the junk mail.

>Right now I would just like them to make the sending of unsolicited
>'adult' material illegal since the spammer has no way of knowing
>whether the e-mail address they are sending the unsolicited spam to
>belongs to an adult.