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	<title>Comments on: Mail Filters Are Apolitical</title>
	<link>http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/</link>
	<description>Gentlemen, Look and Behold!</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Mike Hillyer</title>
		<link>http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-59</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hillyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 20:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let's take a look at the first amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Are you implying that the US Congress has written a law preventing you from sending your email? The first amendment is there to keep the government from silencing its citizens. Comcast is not the government, it is a private corporation. This is not about the internet as a whole, it is about Comcast's email server. They exist to serve their customers, not those who want to send email to those customers and they will act in whatever way they see fit to serve those customers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the first amendment:</p>
<p>&#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&#8221;</p>
<p>Are you implying that the US Congress has written a law preventing you from sending your email? The first amendment is there to keep the government from silencing its citizens. Comcast is not the government, it is a private corporation. This is not about the internet as a whole, it is about Comcast&#8217;s email server. They exist to serve their customers, not those who want to send email to those customers and they will act in whatever way they see fit to serve those customers.</p>
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		<title>By: Ulf Erlingsson</title>
		<link>http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-58</link>
		<dc:creator>Ulf Erlingsson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 20:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Today Comcast started blocking all emails we were sending that contained our domain name, lindorm.com, as either sender or recipient. After several hours of monitoring we called Comcast and by a strange coincidence the "error" "disappeared" miraculously within a miunute of explaining the problem. Funny how coincidences work, isn't it?

My point, though, is that this INDEED IS A FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUE, as it affects the internet, which is a public space. What Comcast is doing is equivalent to blocking the voices of certain persons speaking in a town hall, but letting others be heard. It is not for them to decide which email I think is spam, that I have my own code for.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today Comcast started blocking all emails we were sending that contained our domain name, lindorm.com, as either sender or recipient. After several hours of monitoring we called Comcast and by a strange coincidence the &#8220;error&#8221; &#8220;disappeared&#8221; miraculously within a miunute of explaining the problem. Funny how coincidences work, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>My point, though, is that this INDEED IS A FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUE, as it affects the internet, which is a public space. What Comcast is doing is equivalent to blocking the voices of certain persons speaking in a town hall, but letting others be heard. It is not for them to decide which email I think is spam, that I have my own code for.</p>
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		<title>By: I am</title>
		<link>http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-48</link>
		<dc:creator>I am</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-48</guid>
		<description>&#62;&#62;Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

:)))))))</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;&gt;Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.</p>
<p>:)))))))</p>
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