[13077] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Oct 28 14:55:26 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:36:05 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
Cc: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971028111523.09658@priori.net>; from "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net> on Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 11:15:24AM -0800
On Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 11:15:24AM -0800, J.D. Falk wrote:
> 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.
It's a truth-in-advertising issue, J.D.
Cheers,
-- jra
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