It is so interesting how easily we condemn actions that are not so very different from the programs we develop every day.

Remember the old hair commercial? She told two friends and she told two friends and she told friends and over and over? and all those pretty heads popped up on the screen! I suppose that sort of thing is criminal now.

I wonder too, if some one discovers the secret to *COLD FUSION* and doesn't want the government(s) to hide the knowledge and so they distribute the process to as many people in the world as they can, it would be illegal and criminal to do it via email but if they could somehow get the message on CNN it would be okay. In other words, its not the message or its value that matters, it's how you choose to propagate it. In other words, it's the medium, not the message. The internet will protect free speech, just not too much of it.

Isn't this just a little bit scary to anyone? Build better networks. Build better email servers.

Some web sites I hit pop-up annoying windows. When you close one, two more pop up. I have had to go to task manager to kill their processes to get rid of them. It is very annoying and disruptive. And not only me, it is happening to millions of people too no doubt. Extremely disruptive? Why aren't the people who wrote that intrusive software not charged and prosecuted? I didn't ask for those extra windows to pop up? I didn't ask for my memory to be used in that fashion. How dare they!

Charge them! Prosecute them! Condemn them!


>Hey, Bob, *these* thoughts are getting you awfully close to that old line that you (thought you had) learned to avoid < bg >
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>I suspect the boys in blue will be at your door shortly!
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>Cheers,
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>Jim N
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