[ih] The Decline and Fall of Internet Email?

[John Levine]

It appears that Miles Fidelman via Internet-history <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> said:
>matter, telephone & now txt services.  Yes, spam is a problem for postal 
>mail, phones, and txt - but we don't insert "moderators" in the process, 
>nor block stuff without explicit instructions.

You might be surprised at what your mobile carrier is doing with calls
that don't have STIR/SHAKEN signatures they recognize. There are plans
to do similar things with SMS.

>And, funny thing, don't we have an "email privacy act" that should be 
>protecting us from a lot of the recent anti-spam & anti-offense mechanisms?

Certainly not in the U.S.  Some people claim there's one in Germany but it
seems to be a rather strained interpretation of the law.

47 USC 230 has repeatedly been interpreted to protect ISP spam filtering.

R's,
John

PS: This doesn't have a lot to do with Internet history.