On Tue, 21 May 2002 10:58:33 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/21/02 7:14 AM, "Jeffrey Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Site blocking, however, is effective if merely enough people do it. > But then you get into the issues of consent. Who gets to decide what > should be blocked? This is where it gets to be complicated, because > one of the realities is that while most of us want to block spam, in > all honesty, porn is a big profit center, not just for the porn sites, > but for the ISPs who sell accounts to access it, run usenet sites so > customers have access to the binary groups, etc, etc. Even if sites > want to block stuff, not all of their customers want it blocked. This problem is implicit in SPAM being defined behaviourally. People don't have universal views on behaviour. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
