There’s a cool panel I’ll be going to this Sunday in Berkeley at the Hillside Club.
I don’t mean to make the event sound confrontational in my headline. The goal of this panel is to get everybody in one room so we can hear all of the different viewpoints on these issues. Hopefully we’ll be willing to listen to one another. It should be pretty interesting.
Members of the press: this would be a good chance for you to spend an hour or so of your time and learn everything you ever wanted to know about spam tech and collect a round of business cards from the participating parties for quotes in the future when this stuff hits the mainstream media over the next few months.
CAN WE STOP SPAM?
A Panel of Spammers, Anti-Spammers, and the Spam-Inflicted Duke It Out
Here’s the official description:

We’ll hear all sides – including your own – at a revolving panel, which
includes antispam developers Brightmail, Postini, Mail Frontier,
Cloudmark, and ActiveState (from Canada); Internet entrepreneur Gary
Kremen, founder of Match.com and sex.com, who argues that spam is
ineradicable; Paul Goldman, CEO of Markado, an “intelligent” etailer;
EFF Chair Brad Templeton; Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist; and PC
World’s Harry McCracken, whose team has just completed an exhaustive
round-up of anti-spam legislation.

What: Sylvia’s and Jeff’s CyberSalon
When: SUNDAY, June 15, 2003
Time: 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Where: Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St. Berkeley
Directions are at the bottom of the full invite.
See you there.

Sylvia’s and Jeff’s CyberSalon
SUNDAY, June 15, 2003
5:30-8:00 p.m.
Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St.*
Berkeley
CAN WE STOP SPAM?
A Panel of Spammers, Anti-Spammers, and the Spam-Inflicted Duke It Out
Come join an exhilarating panel discussion covering all aspects of a
growing Internet irritant: spam. Most people treat it like a weed, while
some consider it their bread and butter. Others think a cure is
impossible or potentially – like Agent Orange — worse than the problem.
We’ll hear all sides – including your own – at a revolving panel, which
includes antispam developers Brightmail, Postini, Mail Frontier,
Cloudmark, and ActiveState (from Canada); Internet entrepreneur Gary
Kremen, founder of Match.com and sex.com, who argues that spam is
ineradicable; Paul Goldman, CEO of Markado, an “intelligent” etailer;
EFF Chair Brad Templeton; Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist; and PC
World’s Harry McCracken, whose team has just completed an exhaustive
round-up of anti-spam legislation.
Jeff Ubois, my partner in this event and a member of the Hillside Club –
which he hopes will become a forum for ideas about technology and
society — will archive the discussion online and also tally votes at
the end when we see which solution you all prefer.
The Cybersalon is open to all, including friends and family. We start at
5:30 with food and drinks (we ask for a $15 donation), and because it’s
also Father’s Day, anyone who brings a father gets dad in for half
price. The panel discussion starts around 6:15. RSVP to
whoisylvia@aol.com by June 13.
Sylvia (Paull)
Founder, Gracenet, Cybersalons, Nerd Walks
*Directions:
From San Francisco, take Bay Bridge, and merge onto I-80 East.
Exit University Ave. and bear RIGHT UNDER the freeway toward 4th St.
Continue STRAIGHT on frontage road for half a mile
RIGHT onto Cedar
STRAIGHT on Cedar for a couple of miles, past Shattuck and Spruce.
From North Bay, take Richmond Bridge to I-80 and Berkeley.
Exit Gilman St., go straight up past San Pablo and bear LEFT onto Cedar
at fork in road
Straight on Cedar for a couple of miles, past Shattuck and Spruce.
Parking: yes.
Public transport: Get off at Downtown Berkeley BART – you can get a bus,
cab, or hitch/walk/bicycle one mile along Shattuck, then make a right
onto Cedar.