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Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

  • From: Scott W Brim
  • Date: Mon Feb 21 19:48:43 2005 
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 08:43:15AM +0900, Dave Crocker allegedly wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:55:04 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >? My favorite quote is:
> >
> >? "All countries want to counter spam -- unsolicited commercial
> >messages that ? can flood email accounts by the hundreds and burden
> >the web with unwanted ? traffic."
> 
> I'm intrigued at the failure to distinguish between the web and
> email, given that spam is a messaging phenomenon, not a publishing
> phenomenon.

It's actually a failure to distinguish the web from the Internet.