Well, I recently called my Senator to ask him to support enhanced
"network neutrality" legislation (since he worked on the 1998
Telecommunications Bill).
I received his reply 2 days later by email. Ok. I found that there
were some misconceptions he had about the topic on a purely technical
basis, and decided to reply to him and set him straight (or more
appropriately, set the staffer straight that had written the response on
his behalf).
Well...
The original message was received at Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:04:21 -0500 (EST)
from localhost [127.0.0.1]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to bridgeheadpsq.senate.gov.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.1.1 User unknown
550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown
<<< 503 5.5.2 Need Rcpt command.
So I'm wondering... if they send emails out that can't be replied to...
doesn't that correspond to the very definition of a "spammer"? Aren't
they concealing their identity?
Sigh.
Oh, well. I knew it was asking too much to have meaningful legislation
on "net neutrality" (or digital rights, or copyright reform, etc) come
from Washington D.C. Perhaps in 50 years they'll finally have a handle
on it.
But I dared to hope...
-Philip
