[11828] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Mr. Green Card makes the Times
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Nordlund)
Thu Apr 21 13:29:46 1994
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 08:52:46 +0000
From: Dave Nordlund <NORDLUND@ccstaff.cc.ukans.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
|Date sent: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 16:30:23 -0400 (EDT)
|From: Lisa Losito <lisa@access.digex.net>
|Subject: Re: Mr. Green Card makes the Times
|To: Steven Grimm <koreth@hyperion.com>
|Copies to: com-priv@psi.com
|
|On Wed, 20 Apr 1994, Steven Grimm wrote:
|
|> What would happen if a bunch of site owners got together and billed that
|> law firm for the disk space and bandwidth/phone time eaten by the ad?
|> Getting a few thousand bills for two cents each might dissuade them from
|> trying it again.
|
It seems to me that a simple way to fix this kind of intrusion is to code
listservers so that a parameter can be set to refuse posting from anyone
not on the list. An outsider could not get to that list. If the list
owner did not set the parameter, then the list is open and no one could
complain.
Dave Nordlund nordlund@ccstaff.cc.ukans.edu
University of Kansas 913/864-0450
Computing Services FAX 913/864-0485
Lawrence, KS 66045
