From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 08:36:34 MST
spike66 wrote:
> I have a vision of a society where everyone
> is accountable for everything they do in
> public. I want the home number of every
> wretched phone spammer, so that right before
> I go to bed at about 2300 Pacific Standard
> Time, I can call them (since it is 0200 where
> they live) and tell them I have decided
> not to buy their product. I want to see
> a society free of the kinds of problems
> caused by the anonymity available to the
> big city dweller.
So, would you agree that you see transparency as
a patch for the problems caused by unclear title?
For instance, if one paid for using the resources
of others when sending mail, spam wouldn't be
possible on the scale it now exists. Transparency
seems like a way to avoid fixing the systemic
errors which cause the problems.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "[The] poetic justice of cause and effect compels respect, compassion." -- Faithless, God is a DJ.
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