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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Karsten)
Mon Aug 13 14:29:57 2007

Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:28:32 -0500
From: Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070812134117.65922.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
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> 
> The real way to get rid of tasting would be to persuade Google and
> Yahoo/Overture to stop paying for clicks on pages with no content
> other than ads, but that would be far too reasonable.

I don't see a practical way to enforce it.

I believe the Net is an unstable system that will eventually be rendered useless 
by spam/etc.  It is a cheap unlimited resource - you pay for your connection, 
and you get access to things you are in no way paying for.  I don't see a way to 
fix it.

Carl K

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