Re: [Asrg] Spam, defined, and permissions

[Laird Breyer <laird at lbreyer.com>]

On Dec 28 2004, Barry Shein wrote:

> haven't paid your bill or whatever. Ask any corporate lawyer which
> s/he'd prefer, shutoffs for content or volume or complaint policies,
> or for non-payment (or you can guess.)

Interesting. How would this work on a planetary scale? Different
countries, different law systems. IANAL, but maybe someone on this
list can chime in: are international agreements likely to be strong
enough to make this work, or do we need some WIPO/GATT conference(s) to get
everyone to sign up? Normally, if someone from e.g. India steals your
resources in the US via the internet, I believe you're SOL.

I agree that if you restrict yourself to spam within the US say, then
converting the problem into theft of resources would make the law more
effective within the US. 

> 
>  > I'd like to speculate that in yet another future, ISPs will be faced
>  > with new mail transports which bypass metered SMTP. In such a future,
>  > mail is indistinguishable from binary data, and charged as part of the
>  > flat monthly fee. 
> 
> Yeah well any anti-spam proposal which springs from the assumption
> that the entire e-mail infrastructure will be rebuilt from scratch
> tends to be shunned. Not sure why the same wouldn't apply to your
> comment.

For the same reason that it doesn't apply to your speculation on a
solid world wide billing system per email. It's big picture
speculation about a possible near future.

-- 
Laird Breyer.

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