dan brickley wrote except that thanks to the magic of spam it s usually some else s locale yeah physical mail makes more sense for physical locales 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 such as anything equivalent will be spam just not email spam dump entry ips for an anonymizing network onto a public bulletin board that s used for other purposes still spam etc etc i m not arguing against other solutions i m arguing that spam is speech if you let governments ban it you re giving them the power to choose who gets to speak lucas URL 