Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

[Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>]

Scott W Brim wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 08:43:15AM +0900, Dave Crocker allegedly wrote:
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> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:55:04 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
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> > > ? My favorite quote is:
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> > > ? "All countries want to counter spam -- unsolicited commercial
> > > messages that ? can flood email accounts by the hundreds and burden
> > > the web with unwanted ? traffic."
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> > I'm intrigued at the failure to distinguish between the web and
> > email, given that spam is a messaging phenomenon, not a publishing
> > phenomenon.
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> It's actually a failure to distinguish the web from the Internet.
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Perhaps its time to give them the web so that we can have the internet back?