[712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Legislative Relief
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Oct 16 15:15:47 1995
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
To: michael@junction.net (Michael Dillon)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 95 12:08:28 PDT
Cc: pferguso@cisco.com, raisch@internet.com, jcurran@bbnplanet.com,
gherbert@crl.com, com-priv@lists.psi.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951016121457.13431A-100000@okjunc.junction.net>; from "Michael Dillon" at Oct 16, 95 12:17 pm
>
> 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.
>
> Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022
> Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130
> http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com
>
As an aside, an undesired side-effect may be more restriciveness, which
is a Bad Thing, IMO.
- paul
