[78125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott W Brim)
Mon Feb 21 19:46:13 2005
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:45:12 -0500
From: Scott W Brim <swb@employees.org>
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 08:43:15AM +0900, Dave Crocker allegedly wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:55:04 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >? My favorite quote is:
> >
> >? "All countries want to counter spam -- unsolicited commercial
> >messages that ? can flood email accounts by the hundreds and burden
> >the web with unwanted ? traffic."
>
> I'm intrigued at the failure to distinguish between the web and
> email, given that spam is a messaging phenomenon, not a publishing
> phenomenon.
It's actually a failure to distinguish the web from the Internet.
