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Re: Monitoring, Flow Stats (Re: spam whore, norcal-systems)

  • From: Phil Howard
  • Date: Wed Feb 03 12:08:46 1999 
Dean Anderson wrote:

> In this case, it says at the the end that service providers "shall not
> utilize service observing or random monitoring except for mechanical or
> service quality control checks"  

Dropping spam on the floor is a "service quality control check".  If it
can be made mechanical (as opposed to hiring a staff of hundreds to read
each incoming message to determine if it is spam or not) then it would
fit under this description.

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