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Re: Monitoring, Flow Stats (Re: spam whore, norcal-systems)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Wed Feb 3 12:09:22 1999

From: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>
To: dean@av8.com (Dean Anderson)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:46:08 -0600 (CST)
Cc: John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990202211741.00aa63d4@odie.av8.com> from "Dean Anderson" at Feb 2, 99 09:43:41 pm

Dean Anderson wrote:

> In this case, it says at the the end that service providers "shall not
> utilize service observing or random monitoring except for mechanical or
> service quality control checks"  

Dropping spam on the floor is a "service quality control check".  If it
can be made mechanical (as opposed to hiring a staff of hundreds to read
each incoming message to determine if it is spam or not) then it would
fit under this description.

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