One score and seven years ago our founders brought forth on this world a new internet, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all cyberspace is created equal. Now we are engaged in a great spamming war, testing whether that internet or any internet so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great cyberbattlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that cyberfield as a final resting-place for those who here gave their spam cancels that that internet might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this cyberspace. The brave men, living and dead-tired who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the users rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored despammers we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these despammers shall not have despammed in vain, that this internet shall have a new birth of freedom from spam, and that cyberspace of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the internet.

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