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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Digital Bill of Rights
James, I feel it is important to reply to your reasoned article with an equal response. Mr. Fowler wrote: > [Fowler, James] Bob, Yes you do have the right to e-mail > anyone you want. I can refuse e-mail from anyone I want. This is > the same for the US postal service. If I choose not to accept > e-mail from you, then you don't get a real say in the matter. The > RBL is a voluntary list. i.e. your network is used for Spam, one > can not get off of your Spam list, they document what they have > done, then add your address to the RBL. it is punishment for you > not respecting the rights and requests of others not to send Spam, > so we (RBL Users) have a right not to accept Spam. This is NOT > envelope steaming, this is looking at the address from who it was > sent from and then stopping the e-mail from going further. > > It is MY company's network, My company's storage system, > My company's connection, My company's money paid for all of this. > My company CAN choose who we want to use our services. > > Your attitude, "Welcome to the digital age. Here is 2000 > pieces of Spam for you. Thanks for the use of your bandwidth and > storage." This is not right. It would be like someone going to > your house, walking in, going to you fridge, getting a drink, and > using your phone and watching your TV, without your permission. > Is this what you really want? This list is a group of people who > have wasted too many hours in trying to get people like you to > listen and please stop the spamming, but it takes a discussion / > Flame mail to do this. Why? Mail is mail is mail in my opinion. And what you do on a *private* server is your own business. Once that server opens for general public usage the obligation is to simply deliver the god-damned mail. Not snif or steam or read the addresses to see if they are kosher. We have our rights and freedoms in a civil society. One day they will be integrated into our laws and various constitutions. Until then I guess Public ISPs will continue to get away with abuses. In my opinion all this RBL nonsense is vastly more destructive in the long term than a few ad e-mails. You may agree to disagree. That too is your right. However you still may not block, manipulate or deny any mail directed at me. *UNLESS* I explicitly give you that permission. Otherwise - buzz of boys. You're treading on dangerous ground. Bob Allisat Free Community Network _ [email protected] . http://fcn.net http://fcn.net/allisat _ http://fcn.net/draft
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