[15401] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broken domain statistics...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Tue Feb 17 08:10:27 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:04:18 -1000 (HST)
From: Scott Weeks <scott@digisle.net>
To: Jerry Eyers <jeyers@ialn.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980216180806.00a0ed20@mail.intractsys.com>
Everyone,
I would *NOT* like federal laws governing situations that I could solve
with other methods. just a thought...no more...
Thanks for your time,
Scott
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Jerry Eyers wrote:
> >P.S. Just in case people have forgotten: I want to change the postal laws
> >to apply to electronic communication. This doesn't completely ban spam, but
> >bans a number of pernicious activities which technically aren't illegal if
> >a postal address isn't involved, requires that spamers not send email to
> >people who don't want it, and bans sexual solictations to addresses that
> >don't want it, have children, etc. It has the advantage of being a)
> >reasonable b) guaranteed constitional c) inexpensive to implement.
> >
> >These other "solutions" are just poorly thoughtout lunacy, which will have
> >side effects that are worse than the original problem.
>
> Keep in mind what other "benefits" that brings to the table, like issues
> related to network monitoring. Suddenly you can no longer legaly plug a
> sniffer into your network to fix a problem because you could be carrying
> someone's email over the wire. It would be better than what is going on
> now, but I am not sure it would be the best solution.
>
>
> Jerry
lunacy is in the eye of the beholder :)
