[710] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Legislative Relief
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Mon Oct 16 15:13:15 1995
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:17:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@junction.net>
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
cc: raisch@internet.com, pferguso@cisco.com, jcurran@bbnplanet.com,
gherbert@crl.com, com-priv@lists.psi.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510161844.LAA24340@lint.cisco.com>
On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> As someone already mentioned, we need to stop thinking of the
> Internet in US-centric fashions. The Internet spans continents
> and has no regard for national boundaries or knee-jerk legislation.
When one country passes legislation to deal with a situation, other
countries will often study that legislation as the basis for their own
new law. Somebody has to take the first step.
Anyway, the real solution is to make people aware that spamming is "not
nice" and a waste of time. Anything that generates some publicity for the
cause is good including national legislation.
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