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Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Wed Aug 09 23:29:11 2006

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On 8/10/06, Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote: 
Shouldn't most of freemail/webmail services be doing their own outbound
spam and virus checking now?


Yes, Sean - they are.  But it is far, far more productive for the
source of this abuse to be choked off.  Call it the difference between
using mosquito repellant and draining a huge pool of stagnant water
just outside your home.

Do we really want ISPs to become the enforcers for every Internet application someone may use or abuse? Webmail, online game cheating, blog complaints, auctions disputes, instant message harrasment, music sharing, online gambling, etc.

Imagining you are going to stop drug dealers by removing public pay phones isn't addressing the real source of the problem.