Re: Charge?

[J C Lawrence <claw @ kanga . nu>]

On Tue, 21 May 2002 10:58:33 -0700 
Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:

> On 5/21/02 7:14 AM, "Jeffrey Goldberg" <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:

>> Site blocking, however, is effective if merely enough people do it.

> But then you get into the issues of consent. Who gets to decide what
> should be blocked? This is where it gets to be complicated, because
> one of the realities is that while most of us want to block spam, in
> all honesty, porn is a big profit center, not just for the porn sites,
> but for the ISPs who sell accounts to access it, run usenet sites so
> customers have access to the binary groups, etc, etc. Even if sites
> want to block stuff, not all of their customers want it blocked.

This problem is implicit in SPAM being defined behaviourally.  People
don't have universal views on behaviour.

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