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  • From: "Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Spam retaliation or not
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:46:08 -0400

I can here Chef on South Park singing a song about making sweet love to
spammers right now...

----- Original Message -----
From: "David R. Matusiak" <dave AT matusiak.org>
To: <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Spam retaliation or not


> i think what everyone needs to do is put on Marvin Gaye's "Sexual
> Healing" and be all like "Ahhhh yeah, baby!" and then make sweet love
> to the spammers of the world. These people need love and affection
> just like you and me and if we focus more on the love aspects of our
> relationship with them (instead of trying to shame them into stopping)
> then perhaps we will find satisfaction for all of us.
>
> i'm talkin' 'bout the love, mang.
>
> On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 02:26 PM, Joey Carr wrote:
>
> > That's sorta' what I'm saying. I think that a "new religion" is what
> > it's
> > going to take.
> >
> > Anyway, in response to Brian's response, I didn't mean to suggest that
> > non-violent, or non-retaliatory action should be entirely passive. I
> > think there is something to be done, like a hunger strike or civil
> > disobedience, that makes a statement that's hard to ignore. And, of
> > course, it has to be in proportion to the thing it criticizes--a hunger
> > strike against unsolicited commercial email doesn't make a lot of
> > sense.
> >
> > Not to attribute Machiavellian machinations to two of the great men of
> > the
> > twentieth century, but both King and Gandhi understood that the
> > legislation was already in place or would follow, but the important
> > battle
> > was in public opinion--in winning the soul felt sympathy of the
> > majority
> > of people. That's what I think we need: the act that convinces normal
> > rational people that spam is so wrong that they can't do it.
> >
> > Personally I'm not quite ready to set myself on fire in the street.
> > Anyone have any ideas that might be more, uhm, practical than that?
> >
> > -Joey
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Beth wrote:
> >
> >> Spiritual enlightenment through coping with spam. Religion for the
> >> new millennium.
>
> mad kudos to Beth for the coinage of the year!
>
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