On 2/5/2009, Jehan Pagès (jehan.marmottard@gmail.com) wrote:
That's unfortunate, but I cannot do what you say for these reasons. This is somehow a question of network neutrality ( http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144 ).
Not sure what net neutrality has to do with this... unless you are syaing you are operating an ISP service?
But don't make me tell what I don't: I would love to be able to block spam and if a secure antispam system appears, then I would use it. I don't argue that spam is potentially interesting and that we should allow it for people loving it (who?!) of course; the neutrality is only lost when the antispam fails and caught non-spam as well, because it is then a regulation system which controls people's personal data and would improve net experience of many at the price of data loss for others.
Even for ISPs, there are a number of ways to dramatically reduce spam with pretty much zero false positives...
ASSP (and now ASSPS) is a great tool...
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/assp/
Forwarding OBVIOUS spam is simply passing on what should be your problem to others.
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Best regards,
Charles