on thu NUMBER aug NUMBER lucas gonze wrote political mail the snail kind doesn t bother me i like it a lot of the time because as crap as it is at least it s not the kind of info you get on tv particularly for small time local politics it s the best way to get information except that thanks to the magic of spam it s usually some else s locale but what matters is that mail is speech and political email has to be as well protected as any other political speech spam is the tool for dissident news since the face that it s unsolicited means that recipients can t be blamed for being on a mailing list a terrible argument there are better technical solutions to privacy protection than sending a copy of the same message to everyone on the internet so the recipients can t be blamed for reading it wait till phone spam is as cheap to send as email spam dan URL 