Good Spam

Here's the first piece of spam I've gotten that I actually found worth reading:

Here's some legislation to get behind. Call your Congressperson to ask them to support Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders Freedom to Read Act.


Sanders introduced the Freedom to Read Protection Act (H.R. 1157) at the request of Vermont booksellers and librarians. H.R. 1157 would repeal the provision of the USA Patriot Act that allows the FBI to secretly request and serve a subpoena for bookstore and library records if the FBI believes they are relevant to a foreign intelligence investigation, even the records of people who are not suspected of committing a crime. If served with a subpoena, the bookseller or librarian is forbidden to reveal that they have released this information.

Read more about it at: http://news.bookweb.org/news/1382.html

Here's a site to find your Congressperson's phone, address, etc.: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
Just enter your zip code in the search window.

Please forward this email to anyone you think might value their privacy.
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Richard Engling http://www.richardengling.com

Of course lauding this opens the door to saying that any piece of proseletysing that the spam sender thinks is worthwhile is OK to send. I hate spam, and I don't appreciate the approach here. But I do actually think the content is worthwhile.

May 09, 2003 12:09 PM