someone is using my email address to spam, is there a way to stop this ?

[James Knott]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Scott Elcomb wrote:
>
>> Sorry - can't resist.  If "the people" make it an issue and _ask_ for
>> that as a default, how does it affect the concept of net neutrality?
>> The whole fight over "Net Neutrality" is about corporations (or ...
>> shudder... gov't) making decisions for us - without necessarily asking
>> for consent - isn't it?
>
> I think there is a broad and a narrow definition.  The narrow one is 
> as you state but the broad definition is that the underlying design of 
> the Internet should not be predisposed towards certain types of 
> traffic or make assumptions about how people will use the network in 
> the future.  We shouldn't (for example) tweak TCP network wide to help 
> HTTP because we can't predict how the network will be used in 20 or 50 
> years time.

Rather that enhancing specific protocols, QoS may be useful.  This way, 
delay sensitive protocols, such as voice get better service than file 
transfer.


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