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Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:33:05 -0500
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:24:37PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
What exactly does "established business relationship" mean in the context of (for example) the NANOG mailing list? (Note that once there is a business relationship, there's no requirement that the solicitation has to be related - I continually get calls from various financial institutions plugging other services)
Sadly I think we'll always be getting "spammed" by people we do business with, and I don't think there's any way to write the rules so this doesn't happen. While slightly more obvious in e-mail, it's not much different than what happens in other mediums: * You get a bill from someone, and in the same envelope they have flyers for some of their new products. * You get a call from your credit card company offering travel insurance for all the purchases you make on the call. * You call customer service for your new computer and while on hold hear ads about cut-rate internet service. I think the legislative presumption needs to be that if you're doing business with someone then they can contact you about pretty much anything, and if you don't like their contacting you can end the business relationship so they can't do it anymore. Writing rules to eliminate such communications I think would very quickly start to step on normal business practices, and even if everyone on nanog wanted that the $$$'s that make business and politics go around would never go for it. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request () tmbg org, www.tmbg.org
Current thread:
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?, (continued)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Paul Vixie (Oct 28)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Leo Bicknell (Oct 28)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? John M . Brown (Oct 28)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? John Payne (Oct 28)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Leo Bicknell (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? John Payne (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? David Schwartz (Oct 29)
- RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Scotty Allen (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Leo Bicknell (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? David Luyer (Oct 30)
- RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Mike Batchelor (Oct 28)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Paul Vixie (Oct 28)
- RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Mike Batchelor (Oct 28)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? John M . Brown (Oct 28)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Christopher A. Woodfield (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? John Osmon (Oct 29)
- RBL & Broadband (WAS: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?) Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 29)
- Re: RBL & Broadband (WAS: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?) Paul Vixie (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Christopher A. Woodfield (Oct 29)