The DDoS problem... handled wrong by the governments?

2000-06-19 Thread tkuiper
If I look on the Homepage of the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) http://www.nipc.gov/ (part of the FBI), I see there are Advisory's about the diffrent Distributed denial of service tools. But I think the way how its handled is really wrong. Instead of "enforcing" the people who

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Re: fyi.. House Committee Passes Bill Limiting Spam E-Mail

2000-06-19 Thread Robert G. Ferrell
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

Re: fyi.. House Committee Passes Bill Limiting Spam E-Mail

2000-06-19 Thread Randall . Gale
It's easy to classify SPAM as "junkmail" or UCE but I think that leaves too much to interpretation these days. Especially given the almost completely commercial applications of "the net" (gawd, I hate to even think of Sandra B. and her magic octet). I think the answer could live in what is

Re: fyi.. House Committee Passes Bill Limiting Spam E-Mail

2000-06-19 Thread Keith Moore
And I hope that the courts will finally realize that freedom of speech includes the freedom not to have your communications disrupted by people who want to sell you things. I dunno, Keith. What you are asking for is content control - you are saying that certain content shouldn't get to

Re: fyi.. House Committee Passes Bill Limiting Spam E-Mail

2000-06-19 Thread Matt Crawford
actually I'd settle for well-defined mandatory labelling - at the SMTP level for big volume spammers and at the 822 level for everyone. Perhaps a future First Lady Tipper Gore will try to help you out there, as she did for the consumers of recorded music. Around here, we've been warned

Re: fyi.. House Committee Passes Bill Limiting Spam E-Mail

2000-06-19 Thread Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
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

Re: fyi.. House Committee Passes Bill Limiting Spam E-Mail

2000-06-19 Thread Mark Atwood
Chip Rosenthal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:35:23PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: And I hope that the courts will finally realize that freedom of speech includes the freedom not to have your communications disrupted by people who want to sell you things. The

Re: fyi.. House Committee Passes Bill Limiting Spam E-Mail

2000-06-19 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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