[discuss] Another couple of items

Tue Jan 14 15:09:05 UTC 2014

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio at gmail.com> wrote:

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> One alternative is to take actions to increase the costs of sending SPAM.
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> So you are saying increase cost of sending mail? as what we consider spam
differ on individual basis.

Cheers!

> -J
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> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org> wrote:
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>> On 13-Jan-14 20:04, Rinalia Abdul Rahim wrote:
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>>> Avri,
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>>> Can you provide examples for "4. Issues that while of public interest
>>> regardless, are transformed by the Internet"?
>>>
>>> Rinalia
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>> Hmm, without taking into account Parminder's recasting of the issue back
>> to 3.  Or Brian's explanations as I have not not thought them through yet.
>>  And with the liability of proving how clueless I am:
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>> The first possible example that comes to my academic mind is SPAM.
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>> Certainly Bulk email is a fact of life and was for a long time before the
>> Internet (though I admit I have not done research on bulk mail and when it
>> began - it might have been the Sear's catalog back in the 19th century).
>>  It has been a public interest issue and in the form of Junk mail
>> discussions is still an issue for many people and institutions. And may
>> even be an international issue at the UPU (Universal Postal Union) for all
>> I know.
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