Re: [Asrg] Spam, defined, and permissions

[Peter Bowyer <peeebeee at gmail.com>]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 02:32:31 +0000 (GMT), gep2 at terabites.com 
> ...
> there is NO feasible way for a spammer to try to sue a recipient who has chosen
> to refuse to accept, or read, the mail a spammer has tried to jam into the
> recipient's mailbox.  [This does NOT apply to mail that has been 'filtered' by
> some upstream authority, an ISP perhaps, based on their OWN arbitrary rules.]

The user has still made a clear decision - one to delegate their right
to accept/refuse to the ISP. As long as the ISP's contract makes this
clear, then I believe there's no difference in the 2 cases. The user
can exercise choice by switching to an ISP which allows greater
control by its users (and as John has pointed out, probably charges a
premium to cover the costs of offering that control).

Peter

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