aPologys to Monty. 
Whatever the law is, we might revisit the question of what privacy 
means on a planet that is getting pretty crowded.  One of the ways 
of expanding the personal space, is to limit what is intruded into 
it.  SPAM, junkmail, tv/radio adds, etc. are not examples of 'free 
speech' if the source of it comes not from an *individual*, but is 
an organizational creation, which I submit wasn't mentioned in the 
Bill of Rights. 
 
One of the advantages of FIDO (this's a FIDO echo ain't it?), is a 
ban on commercial messages, for which, I for one, am grateful; the 
moderator here and elsewhere is, I believe, a volunteer who sees a 
way to improve free speech by us, by eliminating SPAM.  This alone 
is reason enough to preserve this alternative to the inet. 
 
BTW: does anyone know what the acronym SPAM originally stood for? 
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