[81463] in North American Network Operators' Group
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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