----- Original Message ----- From: John Scrivner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:12:38 -0900 Subject: [WISPA] Email a Critical Service? was: A wisp who went a little too far.......
> If email becomes that important then your business becomes worth more > money. I welcome it personally. Obviously we will all need to > investigate ways of creating a more stable email environment than we > have now. I think we will need to consider developing a "pay per email" > platform where messages are billable. This goes both ways. It fixes the > spam issue also. This is our chance to become as important to the > American public as the delivery of first class mail. This is important > to discuss and debate. What is better? Email is not important or is > vitally important? > Scriv > > We serve email service for many who live and breathe daily on more than air, but be the email messages they send and receive. If your cell phone is dead, it's painful, but if your email service is down, it's unbearable. This is the words of our customers. We recently went to x64 systems and a more reliable route to accommodate email customer growth. Of course they like it without SPAM. Pay per email will cause a migration from your platform to one who isn't though, until that cost propagates. I find that even folks that run a horse ranch depend on email as much as hay these days. -Dee > fred wrote: > > > Why in the world, I want to know, are organ availability notifications > > going out via email???!!! Seriously. How fun will it be when they > > start serving subpeonas and such that way - What I never got that > > email?? > > > > ~fred > > > > On 12/16/06, Mike Ireton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> The really interesting part of this: > >> > >> > >> > > >> > The attack cut off service for one woman who was waiting for an e-mail > >> > notifying her about the availability of an organ transplant that she > >> > required, according to prosecutors. Because of her critical status, > >> her > >> > provider gave her priority status and restored her access within 24 > >> hours. > >> > > >> > "Had her medical providers sent her an e-mail notifying her of a > >> > suitable organ donor and had she not responded because of her lost > >> > Internet access, she might have lost her priority for an organ, thus > >> > potentially extending the period she would have to wait for another > >> > donor," wrote prosecutors in the indictment. > >> > > >> > >> People are starting to believe their email is guaranteed and > >> that their > >> computers can be entrusted with life saving information. Worse yet, it > >> appears these prosecutors would have trumped this up and made hay out of > >> it had her mail not gotten there. So in another context - what if the > >> stock pump and dump scammers started using wrapper text that mentioned > >> organ donations to the point of poisoning the Bayesian databases of all > >> spamassassin enabled mail servers? What if the mail has been blocked > >> outright due to other spam filtering already in place? Or put into a > >> quarantine and she didn't look in her quarantine box in time? Or if the > >> sending server of the mail was on an RBL due to some other user at the > >> site sending spam to spamcop spamtraps for example? > >> > >> Drama is drama. I think what this guy did was reprehensible > >> and he > >> certainly deserves the clink, but what he did is not any kind of threat > >> or risk to health and safety - the stupidity of using email and > >> computers for life saving communications IS. > >> > >> $0.02 > >> > >> Mike- > >> > >> -- > > -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
