In article <000c01c11ea0$e998f240$c7075cc3@default>, Dilwyn Jones
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>>Huh, what about my privacy getting these things in the first place,
>>>wasting my time, money and patience with them?
>>
>>Once you know the source you can block it / delete it, with your
>email
>>software, or not even download it from your ISP. Yet this can go on
>for
>>ever ... better as suggested that ISP's filter out the rogue emails
>in
>>the first place. Which they can/could do ... yet this has
>implications
>>for other things too, like the 'freedom' of the net, etc.
>
>Freedom is a concept best used by responsible societies. If M$ was
>silly enough to design these systems to be able to carry viruses in
>the first place (even though the facility was meant for something more
>legitimate) then ...
>
>Anyway, I do use my email software to block what its capable of. Once
>I receive an email I didn't want from someone, I can simply tell my
>email software to either not download it or even to delete it off the
>ISP's server. Sadly, I have to put up with downloading a 100K work or
>virus first, look at the email address, then tell my software to block
>further ones. Gneerally, they never aarrive fromt he ssame place
>twice.
That is the problem of an individual blocking unwanted email, it is an
endless job.
>Freedom of the net (to engage in virus/pornography/hacking/political
>extremism etc etc???) versus filtering out certain activities by
>software which can be set up not to invade privacy for genuine emails?
>No question.
Yes, freedom is a very debatable point ... censorship, taste, etc ...
with the net you take its bad with its good. It has emerged as one of
the least restricted media available, yet this has its downside too.
Even these emails are being monitored ...
--
Malcolm Cadman
