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Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sat Jun 11 16:04:24 2005

Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:03:19 -0700
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200506111957.j5BJvwKm016171@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> Amen (mostly).
> 
> I think we can write off "legislative" until we fix the root causes that gave
> us the CAN-SPAM act.  

That's the precise reason I said "probably". "root causes" include 
congresscritters in the pockets of the DMA, and that's not likely to change 
soon.


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