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I'd like to address this topic in a bit more detail, but it's a closed
issue that has been discussed (to extremes) in the past.
Simply put: any filtering that would be done on this list, whether it be
of viruses, offensive users, spam, etc. would be censorship of some form,
however noble in motivation. The FreeS/WAN project has a political
core: that information not be censored based on content.
Why? Censorship/filtering is a slippery slope; although it
might seem useful, if the ability to censor based on content were to
become widespread and accepted across the 'net as a whole, how long might
it be until information you need to know might be deemed unacceptable by those who control the
communication networks? The 'net was intended to be free; but there are those
who would like nothing better than to have your movements tracked for
marketing purposes, your communications monitored for libelous statements
against a megacorp, etc.
The flow of information in North America is still, for the most part,
free and accessible to all on the Internet. Censorship is a daily
reality for others, where some governments restrict access to
information they declare anathema.
The people who fund and work on this project believe that people
have a right to free communication: whether it be private and secure,
or public and widely accessible. Censoring this list would restrict
communication; and any action that serves to restrict communication in any
small fashion, regardless of how it might benefit those who read it,
is unlikely to be accepted due to the political core that motivates this project.
Thus, there will likely never be a filtered version of this mailing list
produced by the FreeS/WAN project.
If someone were to decide to mirror our content, only filtered
for viruses/spam/offensive users, I doubt the project leaders would stop
that from being made available. That's the point; no-one SHOULD be able to
stop you from doing what you wish with this content that we make
publically available.
Sam Sgro.
sam_at_freeswan.org
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