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Re: Getting Serious About the War on Spam

Mark Crispin (MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU)
Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:00:55 -0700

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> When the Internet was a private network serving an exclusive
> community, few rules were needed.

Actually, the Internet was under very strict regulation; all traffic
had to "be, or be in support of, official US government business".
That was stretched a lot; but it was sternly enforced when stretched
too hard.

When the (more or less benevolent) military dictatorship was
overthrown, there was an attempt at establishing acceptable use
policies (AUP). There was a huge hue and cry about how evil it was to
have AUPs and how the network should be an anarchy. The anarchists
won.

-- Mark --

http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

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