Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs
smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran) wrote:
It's sad that apparently the Internet has evolved to the point where politicians move faster than standards-makers.
I beg to disagree. The Internet has evolved to the point where politicans make standards. This is a sad state of affairs, indeed. Windows at 11. --vadim
At 11:30 AM 29-05-97 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
... The Internet has evolved to the point where politicans make standards.
Politicians pass legislation. Technologists create standards. Standards enable. Legislation prohibits. Standards are proactive. Legislation is reactive. If no standards, then legislation. It makes a whole lot of sense to me and is completely unsurprising. Legislators address public issues with legislation if industries fail to act in the public interest -- that is part of their job. How many times have the industry groups of *other* industries acted to stave off restrictive legislation? It's part of the well-known process. That's the truth and those are the consequences of failure to act. --Kent
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