Re: Broken domain statistics...

[Scott Weeks <scott () digisle net>]

Everyone,

I would *NOT* like federal laws governing situations that I could solve
with other methods.  just a thought...no more...

Thanks for your time,
Scott


On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Jerry Eyers wrote:

> > P.S. Just in case people have forgotten: I want to change the postal laws
> > to apply to electronic communication. This doesn't completely ban spam, but
> > bans a number of pernicious activities which technically aren't illegal if
> > a postal address isn't involved, requires that spamers not send email to
> > people who don't want it, and bans sexual solictations to addresses that
> > don't want it, have children, etc.  It has the advantage of being a)
> > reasonable b) guaranteed constitional c) inexpensive to implement.
> >
> > These other "solutions" are just poorly thoughtout lunacy, which will have
> > side effects that are worse than the original problem.
>
> Keep in mind what other "benefits" that brings to the table, like issues
> related to network monitoring.  Suddenly you can no longer legaly plug a
> sniffer into your network to fix a problem because you could be carrying
> someone's email over the wire.  It would be better than what is going on 
> now, but I am not sure it would be the best solution.
>
>
> Jerry

lunacy is in the eye of the beholder :)