Know Your Customer was Still more on Email BOMB

Sat, 09 Dec 2000 21:33:22 -0800

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On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 23:41:31 +1000 (EDT), John Angelico wrote:

>On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:43:23 -0800, Marty Abrego wrote:
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>>On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:07:23 +0700, Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:
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>>>Many ISPs religiously follow this procedure (which is 
>>>called "know your customer" and is the basis of responsible 
>>>business in every time and place) and they have no problems 
>>>with spammers. 
>>
>>"Know your customer" is a totalitarian, statist ploy to trample liberty. 
>
>Why? If you don't know your customer, how are you going to sell anything to him, and sell any more to him? How do you 
>keep the customer satisfied? 
>
>So, please explain the logic...

"Know your customer" was a set of regulations proposed by U.S. feral
(spelled correctly) government that would have required that all banks spy
on their customers and report back to the feral government.  Freedom-loving
individuals from all over the country buried the agency and Congress with
email/snailmail/phonecalls against KYC.  They saw everyone loading their
shotguns and declined to put that particular regulation into effect.

The feral ones have not given up, however, and we must be ever vigilant.

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  Marty Abrego    (o o)                          photon@qnet.com
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