Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-17 Thread J.D. Falk
On 11/16/04, Fred Heutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I doubt that the participants in this discussion who are getting > so huffy about the EFF position are ready to tolerate a > situation where unknown third parties can arbitrarily block > any email they send or receive, without informing them,

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-16 Thread Fred Heutte
I doubt that the participants in this discussion who are getting so huffy about the EFF position are ready to tolerate a situation where unknown third parties can arbitrarily block any email they send or receive, without informing them, regardless of content. Think about how that maps to the pres

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Paul G wrote: with that said, this is quite possibly off-topic to nanog. i'd second the request earlier in the thread to move it to somewhere more appropriate. politechbot for instance .. lovely place to discuss this sort of thing. http://seclists.org/lists/politech/2004/Nov/0026.html -- suresh ram

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-16 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: "Rich Kulawiec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:10 AM Subject: Re: EFF whitepaper --- snip --- > > Collateral damage is unacceptable, period. > > Oh, I most certainly agree

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-16 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:47:14PM -0800, Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: > To me, and people who rely on email for reliable communication, yes absolutely Email (that is: SMTP or ESMTP) was never been designed for reliable communication. It's best-effort. No more. (*Should* there be a new Internet ma

Staying on topic (was Re: EFF whitepaper)

2004-11-15 Thread Steve Gibbard
At a meeting a few weeks ago, a bunch of us made the claim that the NANOG list could in most cases be self-policing. In that spirit, it seems worth pointing out that this discussion of the Russian Mafia, Chechen freedom fighters, the EFF, and China, seems to be heading in a direction that would b

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread Richard Welty
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:07:20 -0500 Peering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From personal experience, whether you check that you want further > mailings from MoveOn.org or not, they send them to you anytime you send > anything (petitions, letters, etc) from their website. They're also not > that g

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread Steven Champeon
on Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:47:14PM -0800, Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Steven Champeon wrote: > > And this affects those of us with not-so-old, not-so-slow machines how? > > By the fact that there is no way in hell that he could relay a large > amount of spam... You seem to be

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Nov 15, 2004, at 5:47 PM, Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: In a nutshell, email requires accountability. The EFF apparently thinks that is too high a price to ask for email. I think you're missing the point. Anonymous communication saves lives, allows people to "blow the whistle", and in general it ser

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Steven Champeon wrote: > And this affects those of us with not-so-old, not-so-slow machines how? By the fact that there is no way in hell that he could relay a large amount of spam... > The bottom line is that Gilmore, and the EFF, have taken a very soft > stance on spam, be

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread Steven Champeon
on Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 01:06:09PM -0800, Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Steven Champeon wrote: > > John Gilmore runs a well-known open relay at toad.com, and for some > > reason thinks that free, anonymous speech is important enough to let > > spammers drown it out through sheer

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Steven Champeon wrote: > John Gilmore runs a well-known open relay at toad.com, and for some > reason thinks that free, anonymous speech is important enough to let > spammers drown it out through sheer volume. Someone famous said something about paying a high price for free s

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread J.D. Falk
On 11/15/04, Steven Champeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, I've long since stopped listening (or contributing) to the EFF > as I see their war on antispammers as counterproductive. John Gilmore runs > a well-known open relay at toad.com, and for some reason thinks that free, > anonymou

RE: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread Miller, Mark
Well-written or not, this piece has a vague odor of blaming the victim for the crime. To cite the specific example quoted below, if cash-hungry spam havens like China, Korea and others took action locally to reduce the "spam-friendly" nature of many of their online providers, the filtering fic

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread Steven Champeon
on Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:45:24AM +, Paul Vixie wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes: > > > http://www.eff.org/wp/?f=SpamCollateralDamage.html > > excerpt: > > I. The Problem > > MoveOn.org is a politically progressive organization that engages >

RE: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-15 Thread Peering
ginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Vixie Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 10:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: EFF whitepaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes: > http://www.eff.org/wp/?f=SpamCollateralDamage.html excerpt:

Re: EFF whitepaper

2004-11-14 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes: > http://www.eff.org/wp/?f=SpamCollateralDamage.html excerpt: I. The Problem MoveOn.org is a politically progressive organization that engages in online activism. For the most part, its work consists of sending out act

EFF whitepaper

2004-11-14 Thread Sean Donelan
http://www.eff.org/wp/?f=SpamCollateralDamage.html