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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:24:37PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > What exactly does "established business relationship" mean in the > context of (for example) the NANOG mailing list? (Note that once there > is a business relationship, there's no requirement that the solicitation > has to be related - I continually get calls from various financial > institutions plugging other services) Sadly I think we'll always be getting "spammed" by people we do business with, and I don't think there's any way to write the rules so this doesn't happen. While slightly more obvious in e-mail, it's not much different than what happens in other mediums: * You get a bill from someone, and in the same envelope they have flyers for some of their new products. * You get a call from your credit card company offering travel insurance for all the purchases you make on the call. * You call customer service for your new computer and while on hold hear ads about cut-rate internet service. I think the legislative presumption needs to be that if you're doing business with someone then they can contact you about pretty much anything, and if you don't like their contacting you can end the business relationship so they can't do it anymore. Writing rules to eliminate such communications I think would very quickly start to step on normal business practices, and even if everyone on nanog wanted that the $$$'s that make business and politics go around would never go for it. -- Leo Bicknell - [email protected] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [email protected], www.tmbg.org
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