While this may be important enough to have some discusion on the
general IETF list, I would point out that there does exist an IETF
working group in this area: RUN, Responsible Use of the Net
<http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/run-charter.html>. This working
group produced RFC 2635 which was adopted by the IETF Consensus
process.
Donald
From: "Robert G. Ferrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:37:35 -0500 (CDT)
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>> It is also impossible to differentiate between so-called
>> spam and expressions of a personal political, social or
>> artistic nature.
>
>Herein lies one of the major issues that ought to be sorted out before
>anyone takes any steps to regulate spam. What is spam, exactly? There seems
>to be a wide variety of notions as to what constitutes a spam. Some
>people define it in its original context; i.e., unsolicited commercial
>email. Others broaden the definition to include offensive or off-topic
>remarks on a public or private list. Still others would include *any* email
>they didn't want to receive as 'spam.' It would be extremely challenging and
>largely useless to attempt to regulate what you can't even categorize, methinks.
>
>RGF
>
>Robert G. Ferrell
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> Who goeth without humor goeth unarmed.
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