At 7:43 PM -0500 3/22/03, <asrg(_at_)bobf(_dot_)frankston(_dot_)com> wrote:
" broadband ISPs in Canada surcharge their customers for bandwidth in
excess of a monthly quota".
1 movie at 10 GB is the same as how many spam messages? Given that 100GB
will soon be the norm...
... why do people think that spam is equivalent to the end of the world
and that we must give up free speech and be complete trackable?
Because we don't live in a fantasy world where 100GB is the norm.
In urban areas, in developed countries, you *might* continue to see
the increase in bandwidth that you are talking about. But I know a
lot of people who's internet connections in the past 10 years have
increased by a stunning 2x. (28.8 to 56). And that's in the U.S..
Please think globally.
But, relax, it's not the end of the world.
My daughter has a fifth grade classmate who spends 15-20 minutes
during lunch break cleaning the spam out of her in-box--every day.
And she's not the only one doing it. Do you think those email
accounts are going to be useable by the time they graduate from high
school?
Nobody is looking to make everyone completely trackable. What we are
aiming for is making people *accountable*. I believe it is fully
possible to make a system whereby people are accountable for the
email they send (by domain, or by email address, or internet
connection) without having that email linked (any more than it
already is--which is pretty tight, all things considered) to a
physical individual.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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