[governance] IGP Alert: "Net Neutrality as Global Principle for Internet Governance"

[Milton L Mueller]

Right. Actually the percentages I have heard are higher -- 98% of all
email traffic is now spam. And there is no principled objection to
filtering spam because almost all of it constitutes undesired messages
which exploit the ability to free ride on the Internet resources of
others. 

Milton Mueller, Professor
Syracuse University 
School of Information Studies
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Narten [mailto:narten at us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 9:08 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Dan Krimm
Subject: Re: [governance] IGP Alert: "Net Neutrality as Global Principle
for Internet Governance"

> I would only add to this that spam filters are best implemented with
end
> users being given maximum control over their settings.

Nice principle, but when ISPs regularly complain > 80% of the email
they carry is spam, it costs an ISP $$ to process it and deliver it to
the "edges", only to be filtered there.

Surely one can understand why they find it highly desirable to keep it
from entering their network in the first place.

Thomas
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