From: antonsen-AT-alf.nbi.dk
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Child XXX  
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 96 12:18:48 +0200


William Elston wrote in a reply to me

>What's more, why would you want to send email to the world in order to
>simply voice your affirmation of the general reaction to this latest SPAM,
>that is to announce that you think that child porn is abhorent, and that
>the SPAM was equally detested. This will have about as much impact as a
>general announcement of our finding the weather agreeable.

You have not understood. The point is NOT to simply state that child porn or 
anything similar to that is abhorent: let's leave that level of discussion to 
the politicians and the priests. When I said "a lot is at stake" that was 
PRECISELY what I meant: this spam has to do with things way beyond the mere text 
, it has to do with pornography, commercialisation, government intervention and 
censorship etc. I would have thought this was abundantly clear from the mailings 
of Carlos, Pierre, Jean-Jacques.... Especially the last ones from Carlos and 
Pierre.

Why do you want us not to take any action? Or is it just the action you thought 
I meant you reacted against?

One of our roles is to identify (and point out to others) exactly this 
interrelatedness between commercialisation and other aspects of capitalist 
ideology on the one hand and moral hypocracy, censorship and idea of punishmnet 
on the other. The raw material for this analysis is provided in every day life, 
but this spam is by far the most clear cut case-story I've come across in years. 
That is why we should react.

Then, Carlos and Pierre have both identified ways of sending such a tract 
WITHOUT inundating anybodys mailbox: simply send it to (relevant) news groups or 
put pointers to it on your home page.

Pierre is also right in pointing out that we do not have any clear cut 
surrealist point of view as regards the internet, and therefore no conscious 
vision of where we want the web to go. I see the making of a tract as one way of 
clarifying at least some possible such points of view.

Hope this clarified things a bit.

Frank