>>>>> "D" == Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
D> This is true. Canada.com does monitor and filter the incoming
D> mail of its users for spam.
Thanks for the confirmation, but please, use the correct terminology.
"Filter" implies a passive sifting, like a coffee filter or an air
filter. It has sweet tones of purity.
What Canada.com (and I presume from your accepting "defense" that
others do this too) is doing is _censorship_, which is, according to
my Oxford dictionary, the action of "an official authorized to examine
printed matter, movies, news &c, before public release, and to
suppress any parts on the grounds of obscenity a threat to security
&c." How can you describe it as otherwise? How is this different
than tapping my telephone or reading my snail-mail?
D> In canada.com's defense, it does notify the sender that the
D> message was blocked as spam, and it has only blocked spam so
D> far, and no legit messages to that subscriber.
Let's be accurate again: "At least those emails where Canada.com
notifies me would be classed as spam" ... they _don't_ however, notify
_me_ that they've done this, and we don't know -- they _may_ be doing
other funky things with the contents of my email.
Who needs carnivore when you can get it for free from Canada's largest
and wealthiest communications company?
Excuse me, I'm just going to pop out to the mailboxes and go through
my neighbour's mail; he might have some spam in there, y'know. Oops,
nope, no spam today, but, hey ... _this_ is sure interesting ...
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Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
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