[100959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ww)
Tue Nov 27 11:51:52 2007
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:52:10 +0100
From: ww <ww@styx.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0711270928320.13074@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:38:40AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, and
> proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and
> be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and pure.
Quoting Wu Ming:
Take everybody's ideas of clear and pure and overlay them and
pretty soon the only things allowed to be sent over the Internet
will be Shakespeare and the Bible, and much of that's a grey
area anyway.
