[178520] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Osmon)
Sat Feb 28 00:38:51 2015
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:42:23 -0700
From: John Osmon <josmon@rigozsaurus.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:32:23PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
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> With the "legal content" rule, I expect some bottom feeding bulk
> mailers to sue claiming that their CAN SPAM compliant spam is legal,
> therefore the providers can't block it.
Yeah... I've had a recurring nightmare for a while now.
There are spammers that skate on the edge of "legal." Since they're
legal, I can't drop their traffic anymore -- and they start filling my
transit pipes.
Then, they force me to privately peer with them...
...and then sue me to get bigger pipes...
But hey -- at least it's neutral, so that's good.
