[78126] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Mon Feb 21 20:08:59 2005
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:08:08 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Scott W Brim <swb@employees.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050222004511.GD1312@sbrim-w2k02>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Scott W Brim wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 08:43:15AM +0900, Dave Crocker allegedly wrote:
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>>On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:55:04 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>>>? My favorite quote is:
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>>>? "All countries want to counter spam -- unsolicited commercial
>>>messages that ? can flood email accounts by the hundreds and burden
>>>the web with unwanted ? traffic."
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>>I'm intrigued at the failure to distinguish between the web and
>>email, given that spam is a messaging phenomenon, not a publishing
>>phenomenon.
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>It's actually a failure to distinguish the web from the Internet.
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Perhaps its time to give them the web so that we can have the internet back?
