[9566] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Wed May 28 03:51:46 1997
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 03:45:21 -0400
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: jdfalk@cybernothing.org
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970527180816.006e04ec@mail.cts.com> [9705.27]
On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 06:08:16PM -0700, Kent W. England wrote:
> 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.
At this point, we'll have to do both -- there's already a large
outcry for legislation, and it's inevitable that something will
pass (I support the Smith bill; Murkowski clearly has no idea
what he's talking about.)
> IOPS.ORG could hire some lawyers or spearhead an email initiative.
The ISP/C already has a published stance...there's also the
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (www.cauce.org).
This is getting farther off-topic for NANOG, and there are many
other lists out there dealing with spam, so please reply to me
personally if a reply is warranted.
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