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

[Adam Peake]

How much spam (virus, malware etc) is filtered in transit?

Adam



At 12:36 PM -0500 11/9/07, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>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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