ISPs

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:19:33 +0000


On 26 Feb 2008, at 22:07, Paul Vigay wrote:

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> In a dim and distant universe <d5ixy6BsnGxHFAfS@kalahari.uninhabited.net 
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>   Roger Hayter <roger@hayter.org> enlightened us thusly:
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>> Some of us prefer the spam to the alternative.
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> Plus, spam filtering is different to eavesdropping.

Although, as we discussed ad nauseum some years ago, the distinction  
between `good' automated scanning, reading and taking of actions and  
`bad' automated scanning, reading and taking of actions is hard to pin  
down formally.

ian