RE: MMF-style letter re: SSSCA

From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 19:31:57 MST


I'd be up for it. We just send it out to a bunch of people we know as if we
received it and consider it worth passing along. I'd pick the people I know
that keep huge mailing lists, maintain blogs/webcomics/rant pages, and are
charmingly naive enough to occasionally drop existing viral e-mail memes
into my inbox. Sometimes with a cc list of a hundred people. Sheesh.

Morally legitimately use of viral meme e-mail? You know, I can't think of
any. Interesting. That would make us trendsetters if we got this one
underway :)

Reason
http://www.exratio.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes
> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 2:17 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: MMF-style letter re: SSSCA
>
>
> Reason wrote:
>
> > Insofar as right and wrong go, this is on the side of the
> angels so far as
> > my moral compass goes. Now if it involved actually mass
> mailing, I'd have to
> > think about it...
>
>
> ...which leads to another query: has anyone ever heard of such a scheme
> actually being used for morally just causes? If not...is there a
> reason, or would this merely be the first time the means happened to be
> used to good ends? (And who wishes to do it? As I said, those who
> would accept email from me are by and large already aware of this, but I
> suspect this does not hold true for most people.)



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