[75590] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EFF whitepaper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Wed Nov 17 16:03:09 2004
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:02:17 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200411170253.iAH2rhe52733@pop.hevanet.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 11/16/04, Fred Heutte <aoxomoxoa@sunlightdata.com> wrote:
> I doubt that the participants in this discussion who are getting
> so huffy about the EFF position are ready to tolerate a
> situation where unknown third parties can arbitrarily block
> any email they send or receive, without informing them,
> regardless of content.
>
> Think about how that maps to the present situation.
I can certainly understand how end users or senders would feel
that way, and many ISP's need to start doing a much better job
of communicating their policies to their customers -- that's
certainly not restricted to e-mail. However, using the EFF's
hard-won and extremely critical influence to restrict an ISP's
ability to manage their own systems doesn't seem like a good
long-term solution to that problem.
--
J.D. Falk okay, what's next?
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
