Oh, yawn. Censorship because your ISP subscribes to some kind of highly-effective-blocks-only-spam? That's like arguing (in the U.S.) your dry cleaner violates your Fourth Amendment rights when checking your pockets before washing your trousers.
If you don't like it, switch to another mail service that does not filter. Last I checked, canada.com's mail service was free. If I ran it, I'd probably do the same thing. About the only legitimate complaint you have, assuming canada.com discloses in the TOS, is that the filtering is overbroad. In a few years of experience with canada.com, I have found it to snare only spam. -Declan At 01:57 AM 2/20/2002 -0500, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > >>>>> "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 ... > >-- >Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TeleDynamics Communications Inc >Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com >"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)
