[9552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Tue May 27 22:08:10 1997
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 18:08:16 -0700
To: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970523223811.7337A-100000@ivan.iecc.com>
At 10:51 PM 23-05-97 -0400, John R Levine wrote:
>
>Seems to me that if this were enacted into law, it'd be bad news for ISPs,
>since the volume of spam would increase (since it'd be officially legal) and
>ISPs would have to provide filtering on mountains of inbound spam.
>
If the ISP community doesn't address the email problem with protocols and
technical solutions, then the legislators will respond to their
constituents with regulations.
IOPS.ORG could hire some lawyers or spearhead an email initiative.
--Kent
