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Re: [Asrg] Legal Suggestions ....

2003-04-13 21:06:07
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 01:53:34 +0100 
Steven G Willis <sgwillis(_at_)deepskytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

This is a very good point to consider. At the very least, any blocking
systems in place must have a means available for individual users to
review what is being blocked and what affect this has on traffic into
their email account(s). Without this provision, the variability of the
definition of spam will continue to remain a contentious issue with no
resolution.

Spam control is a major interest to ISPs for the simple reason that it
forms a major operational expense which they really can't claim a value
proposition for with their customers.  If we can come up with a way to
conclusively identify spam before it transits that nice expensive 90th
percentile border router they'll get down and bark like dogs for us.

In the general case ISPs have few to no obligations as to how they
handle packets on their network beyond, "best effort in a manner
conducive to the ISP's operation".  cf Above.net, the RBL, and their BGP
advertisements.  Note that the customers of that ISP only enters the
picture from the vantage of customer satisfaction and thus revenue
retention.

What somebody does with a packet on their wire, on their equipment is
pretty well up to them.  Not you, not me.  If customers really want full
transparency and oversight they will demand that.  So far they very
conspicuously haven't even whimpered in that direction.

-- 
J C Lawrence                
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
claw(_at_)kanga(_dot_)nu               He lived as a devil, eh?           
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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