[13084] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rik Schneider)
Tue Oct 28 16:28:21 1997
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:38:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Rik Schneider <rik@master.netasset.com>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971028111523.09658@priori.net>
How about "ethical issue"
Rik Schneider
Unix Systems Administrator
Net Asset LLC
1315 Van Ness Ave
Suite 103
Fresno CA 93721
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, 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.
>
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