[151] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
use guidelines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Tue Nov 13 11:20:01 1990
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 11:06:51 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: cygint!gumby@labrea.stanford.edu
Cc: craig@nnsc.nsf.net, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Gumby Vinayak Wallace's message of Mon, 12 Nov 90 14:56:31 PST <9011122256.AA04946@cygnus.com>
In the long run (and ignoring the policy issues for the moment) the
best way to deal with junk mail is to "encourage" it, with the proviso
that it be clearly marked at the header/envelope level so it can be
easily filtered by software and an agreement that "remove me from your
junk mail list" will be honored.
I'd rather see a junk mail RFC and policy than any attempt at a ban.
Mainly because one person's junk is another's gold, and the belief
that a compromise like that will encourage cooperation.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were something like that in the phone
system and you could buy phones which, with a flip of a switch, would
answer cold calls automatically with a special busy which meant "not
now", or "not ever".
-Barry Shein
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