[13075] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Tue Oct 28 14:45:58 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:15:24 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
To: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9710281114.AA16931@ncc.ripe.net> [9710.28]
On Oct 28, Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net> wrote:
> Some of them are esentially centralsied methods of controlling Internet
> content. Paul's anti-spam feed for instance prevents users of some
> providers from seeing spam. The user has no choice; they cannot opt to
> receive spam other than by switching to another provider. Even worse:
> they may not even be aware that they are "missing" some content.
Users should be aware if their ISP is blocking something,
no matter what it is. However, that's not a technical or
operational issue...I'm not sure what category it is.
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