UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

Tue Feb 22 01:08:08 UTC 2005

Scott W Brim wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 08:43:15AM +0900, Dave Crocker allegedly wrote:
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>>On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:55:04 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>>>? My favorite quote is:
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>>>? "All countries want to counter spam -- unsolicited commercial
>>>messages that ? can flood email accounts by the hundreds and burden
>>>the web with unwanted ? traffic."
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>>I'm intrigued at the failure to distinguish between the web and
>>email, given that spam is a messaging phenomenon, not a publishing
>>phenomenon.
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>It's actually a failure to distinguish the web from the Internet.
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Perhaps its time to give them the web so that we can have the internet back?