Re: [FreeDNS] Mail Filtering

[Johann Visagie <wjv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anna Swanepoel on 2001-05-15 (Tue) at 09:24:38 +0200:
> 
> To recap: briefly, my (and if I understand correctly - Graham's)views as
> follow:
> Virus protection should happen at ISP/mailing list administrator level,
> where possible, as most end-users are not capable of doing this themselves.

Very, very, very, very, very, VERY bad^H^H^Hfucking stupid idea.

Once you start giving - willingly! - someone else the power to do
content-based filtering on your email - essentially deciding what you read
and what you don't, where will it end?

That's an extremely slippery slope indeed...  and one down which much of
online society is already heading.  Goverments - often prompted by
multinationals - around the world are trying to censor our free access to
information, often by forcing ISPs to filter traffic.  I'm *certainly* not
going to hand over the keys to the kingdom willingly.  In fact, I can and
will unleash thirteen kinds of hell on anyone who even *tries* to filter my
Internet access - email or otherwise.

Political rhetoric aside, many mailing list managers implement some form of
non-content-based schema to protect subscribers against unsolicited email,
such as requiring that the list be an explicit destination of a posting, or
even limiting posting to subscribers.

Similarly, many ISPs block mail from blackholed hosts - though even that is a
moral grey area as far as I'm concerned.

-- V
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