Re: Principles of Spam-abatement

[Alan Barrett <apb at cequrux.com>]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
> I'm not talking about any party to the real end-to-end email 
> transaction.  I'm talking about intermediaries.  I have no problem at 
> all with user-controlled filters that do whatever they want.  It's when 
> an ISP starts doing these things on behalf of a user who doesn't 
> understand or want them that the problems arise.

Your remedy should be truth-in-advertising enforcement, as Vernon said.
Entities that filter in the way that you don't like are not providing
real Internet access, and should not pretend to.

--apb (Alan Barrett)