[702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Legislative Relief - was Re: Motion for a new POST NSF AUP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Oct 16 12:46:13 1995
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
To: raisch@internet.com (Robert Raisch, The Internet Company)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 95 9:40:19 PDT
Cc: jcurran@bbnplanet.com, gherbert@crl.com, com-priv@lists.psi.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510161613.MAA22054@mail.internet.com>; from "Robert Raisch, The Internet Company" at Oct 16, 95 12:09 pm
>
> I would like to propose that we seek legislative relief from
> this ever-increasing problem. I have spoken with counsel and
> now understand what is required to support the enactment of
> federal legislation to prohibit the misuse of electronic mail
> and Usenet news by unprincipled "spammers."
>
Eek. Do you _really_ want to get a bunch of shyster lawyers involved?
I would think that there must be any number of more platable courses of
action than this...
My $.02.
- paul
