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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Norbert Bollow [10/11/07 14:15 +0100]:
>As long as the fundamental design of the email system is not fixed
>to make it possible to reliably avoid the problem of false positives
>in spam filtering, spam filtering is inherently problematic.

Please dont drag in net neutrality into contexts where it doesnt exist.
There are no common carrier obligations for email traffic. And while
there's a lot of best practices about good spam filtering, calling bad or
incompetent spam filtering a violation of network neutrality is ludicrous,
at best.

	srs (mildly surprised at agreeing with milton for once)

>For example, with many spam filter systems, email messages containing
>Christian religious words have a much higher probability of being
>falsely classified as spam.  That is a violation of net neutrality
>with regard to freedom of religion.
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