Re: [Patents] Spamcop tax on NGOs

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

NY Fair Use also got hit.  The person responsible had some sort of
overzealous mechanism in place that generated the report.  He expressed
regrets and asked how to get SpamCop to undo the report.  We told him to
send an email to: appeals@admin.spamcop.net, based on reading their
website.  Are there any other means?

Seth


Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> 
> I sent the following to our administrators.
> 
> Subject: Re: [SpamCop
>     (http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0924/index.en.html) 
> id:1064566953]FFII
>     EU Voters Guide Page
> 
> It seems that someone on the fsfeurope list where Seth Johnson sent his
> mail was angry and then went to Spamcop and gave us trouble.   The
> trouble is even greater when we send out mail to our supporters, i.e.
> people who have agreed explicitely to receiving such mails and can
> unsubscribe any time but prefer reporting to Spamcop to the hassle of
> reading a short text with brain switched on.
> 
> As said before, Spamcop requires at least a few manhours per week if
> not a full-time paid job from every NGO. I called that the "Spamcop tax"
> at
> 
>         http://kwiki.ffii.org/SpamcopEn
> 
> and at the moment we don't have the money nor can we afford to give up
> forms of communication that lead to spamcop reporting.  So we just have
> to put up with it and perhaps alert more users to the limitations of
> Spamcop.
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 1064566953@reports.spamcop.net wrote:
> 
> > [ SpamCop V1.330  ]
> > This message is brief for your comfort.  Please use links below for
> > details.
> >
> > Spamvertised web site: http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
> > Additional links on kwiki.ffii.org:
> > http://kwiki.ffii.org/electpart0405en
> > http://kwiki.ffii.org/swpatcninoen
> > http://kwiki.ffii.org/?intro040608en
> > http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn is 212.72.72.97; Fri, 11 Jun 2004
> > 06:42:44 GMT
> > http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?i=z1064566925zc37890daf80a85b6f5e6c62f35a4830ez
> >
> > Spamvertised web site: http://swpat.ffii.org/log/intro/index.en.html
> > http://swpat.ffii.org/log/intro/index.en.html is 212.72.72.97; Fri, 11 ;
> > Jun 2004 06:42:47 GMT
> > http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?i=z1064566935zdb03ecbb8e7b42a7c6ff4a0f2ddf8c9dz
> >
> > Spamvertised web site: 
> > http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0924/index.en.html
> > http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0924/index.en.html is 212.72.72.97; ;
> > Fri, 11 Jun 2004 06:42:45 GMT
> > http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?i=z1064566953zb115cff9d1ee9c5bf0d9ce70c60404abz
> >
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> > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:42:50 -0700
> > From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
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> >
> > EU Voters Take Note:
> >
> > > http://kwiki.ffii.org/ElectPart0405En
> >
> >
> > The above page provides links that may help European Union citizens
> > determine which candidates are most supportive of information freedom.
> > It provides analyses of the Parties in various Member States, and lets
> > you see how the Parties and individual MEPs voted on the Software
> > Patent Directive this past September.
> >
> > In a world of ubiquitous computing, candidates who take an enlightened
> > position on software patents are most likely to understand the
> > profound extent to which unconscionable exclusive rights policies
> > affect our lives and the wellbeing of society.  It is not an
> > overstatement to say that the diverse, pervasive effects of policies
> > that allow private parties to lay claim to naked information and
> > abstract knowledge, easily make those policies among the most
> > critical, central issues we face today.
> >
> > For more information on software patents in Europe, start with these
> > links:
> >
> > > http://swpat.ffii.org/log/intro/index.en.html
> > > http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0924/index.en.html
> > > http://kwiki.ffii.org/?Intro040608En
> >
> > Latest news:
> >
> > > http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn
> >
> >
> > Seth

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