word salad spam

Alma J Wetzker almaw
Tue Jun 7 17:28:34 PDT 2005


G.Waleed Kavalec wrote:
> PS
> 
> In my humble opinion it is time to start pressuring the upstream big players.
> 
> They conduct spam from their clients, they could detect it, they could
> put in AUPs.
> 
> They don't because it makes them money and mid range players don't
> make it an issue.
> 
[snip]
> 
> 

That would mean that providers actually screen traffic in a meaningful 
way.  Could the G'ment then use that to demand that they be held 
accountable for all traffic?  Could logs of types of traffic be 
demanded?  The results are icky if either answer is yes.

     -- Alma


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