[SpamCop-List] Re: WashPost: AOL Blocks Spammers' Web Sites

[Robert Taylor]

In news:BC819170.13AF6%tamsuraiya at yahoo.ca,
Tam <tamsuraiya at yahoo.ca> sent:

> AOL Blocks Spammers' Web Sites
>
> By Jonathan Krim
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, March 20, 2004; Page A01
>
>
> America Online Inc. has adopted a new tactic against spam: blocking its
> members' ability to see Web sites promoted by bulk e-mailers.
>
> The policy, which began earlier this year, opens a new front in the war on
> spam but also makes the Dulles company the first of its kind to push past
> the traditional Internet orthodoxy that service providers should be
> neutral conduits to anything the World Wide Web has to offer.
>
> ...
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9449-2004Mar19.html

Good motive;  *bad* policy!

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