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Re: AOL/Microsoft-Hotmail Preventing Delivery of Truthout
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:05:34 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Victor Marks" <vxm () miglia com> Date: September 17, 2007 2:47:04 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox comSubject: Re: [IP] Re: AOL/Microsoft-Hotmail Preventing Delivery of Truthout
For IP if so desired.
At 07:05 PM 9/16/2007, Joe Melloy wrote:Truthout is a biased ultra-liberal website that does not deserve to be a participant in the IP community.
Agree with the former, disagree with the latter. Truthout is a biased ultra-liberal website. I doubt they would disagree with that, except when they wish to position themselves as appealing to a majority (but then, they feel that the majority should be as ultra-liberal as they. Such is the nature of political action groups.) "does not deserve to be a participant in the IP community" ? Deserve? I thought Dave decided who deserved and did not deserve to be a part of his community. It's not a free speech issue, Dave gets to pick and choose. Not me, not Malloy, or any one else. If Malloy wants to pick, let him start his own list. Shoot, Dave decides not only who is in or out of the community, he also decides who participates by selecting the email he forwards. I don't have a problem with this, it's Dave's list. He suppresses and discriminates against speech everytime that he chooses to not publish an email he receives for the list. There is nothing wrong with this. As for Truthout, it's entirely possible that they are not filtering their lists well, or that they are, and that people that once opted in or otherwise were added to their list have now decided to report the email as spam. I've seen people who have become convinced that because unsubscribe links don't work on real spam that they also do not work on otherwise legitimate email lists. These people have no problem reporting something they don't want as spam, whether or not it originated as solicited. I don't pretend to know if that is what happened here, but I imagine that it's not unlikely. Regards, Victor Marks ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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