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Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs

  • From: Kent W. England
  • Date: Thu May 29 18:48:21 1997 
At 11:30 AM 29-05-97 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:

>...  The Internet has evolved to the point
>where politicans make standards.
>
Politicians pass legislation. Technologists create standards. Standards
enable. Legislation prohibits. Standards are proactive. Legislation is
reactive. If no standards, then legislation. It makes a whole lot of sense
to me and is completely unsurprising. 

Legislators address public issues with legislation if industries fail to
act in the public interest -- that is part of their job. How many times
have the industry groups of *other* industries acted to stave off
restrictive legislation? It's part of the well-known process. That's the
truth and those are the consequences of failure to act.

--Kent

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