[Esa-l] Anyone have a comprehensive webmail URI list?

Egan egan at sevenkings.net
Thu Aug 23 18:54:27 PDT 2001


On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:26:24 -0600, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.org>
wrote:

>Anything at all that will cause your pattern matching to fail. And
>there are so many ways to do it that I don't know where to begin.

I see that you did not name even one ...


>Look: The best blocking technology in the world -- including Web
>censorship products of all kinds -- is still as porous as Swiss
>cheese. It just doesn't work. If, after investing untold thousands of 
>man-hours, the Chinese can't keep Falun Gong practitioners from accessing 
>Web sites relating to their religion and the Arab states can't keep citizens 
>from seeing things which are unacceptable to THEIR religion, you don't
>have a prayer on one company's limited IT budget. At best, you'll come
>across as foolhardy; at worst, you'll lose key staff who don't want to 
>be in the grip of Big Brother. Don't do it.


I'm a programmer, not a politician.  Perhaps your congressman will be
interested in your political views.


Egan



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