[145979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave CROCKER)
Fri Oct 28 00:00:43 2011
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:59:32 +0200
From: Dave CROCKER <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGUcWjx3oPUhr8N6nwHBZTbKG7qJVv0fwLQA-ukr1WaW7w@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
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On 10/28/2011 5:44 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> A commons is jointly owned, either by a non-trivial number of private
> owners or by all citizens of a government.
The practical use of the term is a bit broader:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons>
As rule, the term gets applied to situations of fate-sharing when actions by
some affect utility for many.
You cited air pollution. The Internet can suffer comparable effects.
Spam can reasonably be called pollution and it has a systemic effect on all
users. For such an issue, it's reasonable and even helpful to view it as a commons.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
