[Gllug] Whitelist-only spam filtering

[Mark Lowes]

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 17:36, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> 
> > Yes I must say I greeted the arrival of "rape porn" spams with some
> > hope.  Disgusting as it is, this may well end up being the final straw
> > that gets the powers-what-be to ban spam.
> 
> Given that the MP who is moving on this has stated that he wants the law 
> to hold the receiving ISP liable for the spam I think your trust is 
> misplaced.

This is why I've been mailing him (got another email putting the ISP
perspective in draft atm), I _want_ him to understand the issues and not
go for the knee jerk reaction.

> Do you really want your ISP to read all your email and only forward what 
> they think is suitable?

Hell speaking with my work hat on we don't want that job to be forced on
us.

BTW Jason, in your capacity as a ISP Geek/PHB have you tried emailing
him to give another point of view to balance all the "letters of
support" he's been getting.

The "public" want the porn spams stopped and they don't care how it's
done.  This worries me.

> > I think you're a bit harsh.  Waiting until she's 18 before she can
> > have unfiltered email?  You may be the coolest dad in the world but
> > there are definitely things she doesn't want you seeing well before
> > the age of 18.  Are you sure she doesn't just have a hotmail account?
> > If not, she will soon enough.
> Indeed. It is trivially easy to get 'net access. The only worthwhile 
> approach to this problem in my view is to educate your kids to handle such 
> messages properly.

Working on it :)

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