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

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:08:02AM -0500,
 Thomas Narten <narten at us.ibm.com> wrote 
 a message of 19 lines which said:

> > 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.

Yes, in an ideal world, all spam would be treated on my desktop, for
maximum control. But, for the reasons you give, it is often better to
handle the spam before my filters can see it.

However, it does not change the underlying principle: users should be
in control, or, as a minimum, should be fully informed. (An example is
my current ISP where each user can choose, from a Web interface, the
level of filtering he chooses.)

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