From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 18:13:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641CB37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2381A43E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:13:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from there (dialup-13.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.142]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g641DFL87663; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:43:15 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200207040113.g641DFL87663@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au Subject: [OT] ISP anti-spam Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:48:26 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There seems to be a movement among ISPs to "help" us by applying spamassasin (or similar) to all mail they handle - IN or OUT. Is this an invasion of privacy? Is such behaviour dangerous, in suggesting to political control freaks that Internet Control is possible and desirable? Would it be MUCH better for all users to be encouraged to use spam filters, if they wish? What do people think on these and related issues? -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message