Re: [Patents] Spamcop tax on NGOs

[jm@jmason.org (Justin Mason)]

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Seth Johnson writes:
>
>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?

That's the main one.   However I'd say it'll work fine in this case,
as it's pretty obvious this wasn't a spam.

- --j.

>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
>> >
>> > [ Additional comments from recipient ]
>> > >
>> > [ Offending message ]
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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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