[43817] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Batchelor)
Fri Oct 26 13:01:59 2001
From: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat@tmcs.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:50:52 -0700
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> in the case where the sender and receiver are communicating between one
> or many third parties, there is no direct relationship and thus no apriori
> terms of service to which the traffic must conform. for this, we
> reverse the
> model: "everything not welcomed is forbidden" and thus create a prior
> restraint problem which goes by the name "what, then, is implicitly
> welcome or unwelcome?"
And how does the owner communicate this to the sender ahead of time? I
don't
think you can, else there would not be a spam problem. Therefore, the only
logical position the sender can take, if he is to act at all, is to assume
that whatever is not actively prevented or refused, is welcome, until such
time as he is notified otherwise. If it is not this way, how can ANY
unsolicited communication take place? Must I ask permission to ask
permission?
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"The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote" -
Kosh
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