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Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts
From: Wayne Bouchard <web () typo org>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 13:36:51 -0700 (MST)
This raises important issues, though. What do we expect providers to do? Do we expect them to take action based on email received from unknown people? It seems from some of the other posts on this topic that we do expect that.
Most providers that I have dealt with will take action against a user who is originating spam when the information mailed to them from this unknown person can be coroborated with information they gleen from system logs and the users activities etc. Although you can't realistically persue most hack attempts with legal action, the host provider, from my observations, is more than willing to kick the SOB off their systems. The question remains though, "Whats reasonable?" Each provider has a different view of what they should or should not do when presented with a report of "abuse" from one of their customers. I'm almost certain this has already been done in some fasion but I'm not aware of where it might be housed so... It would be nice if some group (Hey, wait a minute.. we're something of a group..) could come up with an "Acceptable Use Policy" that people could subscribe to or use as a base for building their own policy. Keeping a list of people who have agreed to this policy or a varient of it might help new services to get the hint that this sort of stuff just doesn't go very well with many people on the net. -Wayne - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Chris A. Icide (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Neil J. McRae (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts David Schwartz (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Neil J. McRae (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Paul A Vixie (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Robert A. Pickering Jr. (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Michael Dillon (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Paul A Vixie (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts David Schwartz (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Bradley Dunn (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Wayne Bouchard (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Paul A Vixie (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Alan Hannan (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Bradley Dunn (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Randy Bush (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Brett L. Hawn (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Kim Culhan (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Barry Shein (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Neil J. McRae (Dec 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Howard C. Berkowitz (Dec 27)
- Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts Alan Hannan (Dec 27)