[43998] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Luyer)
Tue Oct 30 05:57:25 2001
From: David Luyer <david_luyer@pacific.net.au>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:56:38 +1100
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:33:05PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:24:37PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > What exactly does "established business relationship" mean in the
> > context of (for example) the NANOG mailing list? (Note that once there
> > is a business relationship, there's no requirement that the solicitation
> > has to be related - I continually get calls from various financial
> > institutions plugging other services)
>
> Sadly I think we'll always be getting "spammed" by people we do
> business with, and I don't think there's any way to write the rules
> so this doesn't happen.
Some have some comments on this in Australia are at:
http://www.caube.org.au/australia.htm
Basically the positions from the government and industry bodies over here
have been that commercial e-mail must be opt-in if there is no existing
business relationship, otherwise opt-out.
David.
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