On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Bob Miller wrote: > Internetweek > ISP Floats Plan To Legalize Spam > http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6900346 > > > Banning spam is an impossible task, and instead a mechanism must be > > developed to control bulk commercial e-mail and make the senders pay > > for the infrastructure costs of distribution, according to an > > Internet service provider president.
But this won't touch the spammers who lie, cheat and steal, the article talks about charging bulk rates to spammers and using the revenue to fund enforcement. This sounds almost worse from a privacy perspective because paying customers would demand address verification, and demographics. -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
