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Re: Indiustry Alliance Publish Anti-Spam Proposals

2004-06-24 08:53:57

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Glube" <jbglube(_at_)sympatico(_dot_)ca>
To: <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:53 PM
Subject: RE: [spf-discuss] Indiustry Alliance Publish Anti-Spam Proposals

My understanding is this is also the Canadian
position - ISPs are not common carriers and that
ISPs can enforce negative policies.

ISP's vary, by a lot. And the policies that they form for a corporate
customer, for example, may differ a lot from what they provide or attempt to
enforce for individual subscribers. There are compelling legal reasons for
them to want to avoid getting in the game of deciding what is and is not
"commercial". They do "bulk" because they have to, or get stomped flat by
the spammers.

Also note that the ISP's you mentioned are not going after their own
customers or usually giong after the spammers on the basis of the commercial
aspects of the spam. They're legally pursuing spammers who abuse their
customers, and demolish their servers.