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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Monitoring, Flow Stats (Re: spam whore, norcal-systems)
See what happens when we level the rain-forests - we destroy a cure for this... On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Dean Anderson wrote: > If you read the statute, it permits monitoring for quality control > purposes, which your flowstats are. > > There is no exception in 2511 for what Ravi did. Does Verio often reveal > confidential information about their customers' customers traffic? I > wonder how Verio's ISP customers/peers feel about that. I know I wouldn't > be happy if UUnet or BBN thought they could capture and publish my > customers packets. My customers include insurance and health care (privacy > intensive) companies. They would be very unhappy if we used someone who had > this attitude. > > The anti-spammers usually claim the abuse exception as justification for > instituting a block. Its their best (though still flimsy) argument. Its > flimsy since the congress has the authority to regulate or ban spam, and > the congress did pass laws banning junk faxes, and limiting calls to cell > phones, yet they have not yet banned spam. Nor has any court found spam by > itself to be an abuse. The one spam related law that was before the > congress would have placed some requirements on spammers, but would have > made it specifically not an abuse for 2511. In other words, the congress > doesn't agree with the anti-spammers. > > --Dean > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Plain Aviation, Inc [email protected] > LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > -- I am nothing if not net-Q! - [email protected]
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