From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui(_at_)plaidworks(_dot_)com>
On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 07:13 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
What government?
[John Fenley wrote:]
The United States Government.
Most of the world is not American.
And how do you implement this for Cuba? Syria? Libya? Whoever else America
is not on speaking terms this week? What happens when (inevitably) America
chooses to use access to this database as a lever to force it's access and
content policies on the world?
How do you convince the world it won't try that? Not all e-mail users like
America, or trust America. that includes many americans.
The real question was who pays for this system.
I propsed the US government because they are an oganization who's purpose is
to supply needed systems to the population, that would be to costly for a
buisines.
Would we have an interstate highway system, or hoover/glen canyon/Grand
Coulee Dam without the government? These systems help everyone. They would
not have been created without the government. They were too costly.
The Government is a bloated beurocracy yes, but they have done good things
for us(americans) in the past.
Has anyone heard of the National "Do Not Call" Registry?
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/index.html
They are working on the problem, and they have the funds to pursue solutions
that would be difficult or immpossible for a buissiness.
I would rather give my phone number to the government than, say, Microsoft.
if anyone can get my phone number anyway why not. It's just a list of people
who don't want to be called by telemarketers. how can that be used to
control me? is it because they might not let me add my number if I am from
cuba? Unfounded distrust is as dangerous as blind trust.
But enough about that... Does anyone have a reason that my system could not
be used as a loose framework? Forget my bias against spam boxes. Assume it
can be funded. Assume it could be distributed in nature (cashes or
something).
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Would a system to alias whitelists be a good thing?
John Fenley
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