Presenters: Jamie McClelland, May First/People Link and Jason Zanon, Democracy in Action

Audience: Non-technical or some technical background

As for profit spammers proliferate on the web, many corporate Internet Service Providers, such as AOL and Yahoo, are taking a much stricter approach to blocking what they consider spam: "unsolicited bulk email." Corporate definitions of spam do not take into account political mass email. The result is a restriction in our ability to use the Internet for mass communication of messages with political content. This workshop will cover some of the details of how spam blocking works, offer tips on how to avoid having your messages blocked, and include a political discussion of how we as a movement must participate actively in the discussion of spam and spam evasion techniques if we are to preserve the Internet as a tool for mass organizing.