Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jeff Millar" <> | Subject | Re: vger rejecting messages from mediaone (ORBS is evil) | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:45:29 -0500 |
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A very convincing line of argument, _if_ you assume that a mail probe of a net service constitutes a search. It's closer to looking a public behavior than an invasive search.
----- Original Message ----- From: "George Bonser" <grep@shorelink.com> To: "Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru> Cc: <walt@hubinternet.com>; <davids@webmaster.com>; <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>; <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 5:19 PM Subject: Re: vger rejecting messages from mediaone (ORBS is evil)
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> That some self-appointed group can interrupt ones communications by > presuming guilt until one subjects to a search goes against some core > principles that many of us hold dear. Who are these people, and who > elected them? The fix is to simply refuse to submit to their searches and > probes making their database less one of open relays and more one of those > who will not obey their demand. Those how choose to use them will find > their own communications hampered. > > To find one guilty and impose punishment in the absence of any evidence of > wrongoing simply because one refuses to submit to search is wrong. It must > be stopped. The goal is a good one, the method is evil. I would strongly > suggest that all net admins block these probes.
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