Re: Proposed EU Directive on Electronic Commerce, Beebit tmills@localhost
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:43:24 +0100
How many spammers are deterred by those US laws that forbid spam?
Hard to tell. But at least some. Does failure to
reach 100% mean that nothing should be done ?
Does expected failure to reach 0.000001%
justify the efforts?
Which means that the filtering would have to be done by
the user, *not* by his/her ISP: it might well even become
illegal for the ISP to do such filtering!
False. The user can authorise the ISP to filter on
her behalf. And I see nothing requiring the ISP to
offer an unfiltered feed either.
Agreed. But authorisation by definition makes
filtering a legal act.
In other words, exactly the opposite of what you just said.
Nope: there's a world of difference between the
*global* sort of filtering (i.e. applying for
all uses) that I was referring to, and the
*authorised per-user* sort of filtering.
Piet
