On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:28:56AM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > At 07:51 AM 7/27/2006 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > that would be good....but it will only happen if people who think they > > have a right to access other people's mail servers whenever they want, > > even against the owners' wishes, will stop whining. > > The presumption of public access vs. the presumption of privacy. There is > the presumption of permission to enter when u go to a shopping mall. There > is the presumption of permission to go up to somebody's front door. There > is not the presumption of permission to walk into somebody's living room. > It goes to the publicly understood purpose. The purpose of a shopping mall > is to sell things to the public. Nobody has to "find out" if they're > allowed into a mall before they go. Vice versa with ur living room. The > same principles apply to mail servers. Sure every admin has the right to > assert non publicness. But the presumption of publicness remains. So when > two people with different assumptions collide, it creates a problem which > spreads out. Sure we have the right to do a lot of things. Including not > thinking of others. It's frustrating the system. And this is particularly relevant in the case where the mail server using SORBS is not that of a business or a private individual, but that of an ISP providing a service whereby members of the public can communicate with other members of the public using email. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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