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In article <50paqg$ms@nic.ott.hookup.net>, Rob Hall <rob@ottawa.net> wrote:
>Perpetuating the problem of junk email by re-emailing garbage is not the 
>answer.  Education of how wrong their actions are is probably a more 
>appropriate response.

...

>Most of the time the offender is the client of the ISP, not the ISP.  
To punish 
>the ISP and 'shut down their servers' is not appropriate behavior on the Net 
>anymore than junk email is.

  The ISP is the only person that can do anything about the problem.   
I myself first Email the ISP and see what they can do.  If the problem 
continues without the ISP doing anything about it, then the ISP is just 
as guilty as the person sending out the junk Email.


  If the net does not police itself, a government that knows nothing 
about the culture or technology will.  I don't see boycotting and 
otherwise destroying a few ISP's as an issue compared to the loss of the 
net as a whole.

  The net provides a PLACE for any type of expression - policing is only 
ever about sorting things out so that people can CHOOSE to be involved in 
this expression.  Government control usually amounts to removing that 
freedom of expression, not sorting it.

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