“It makes sense for all of these companies to sit down and think about this — they have not given it sufficient thought until now. It's unfortunate that some horrible things had to happen for them to think about it.”
“I think they need to abandon this plan. The ISPs' view that they can auction off preferred access to my e-mail box is really wrong ... It's not the ISP's to sell.”
“I think they need to abandon this plan. The ISPs' view that they can auction off preferred access to my e-mail box is really wrong.... It's not the ISPs' to sell.”
“I think they need to abandon this plan. The ISPs' [Internet service providers'] view that they can auction off preferred access to my e-mail box is really wrong… It's not the ISP's to sell.”
“We have been putting together a rather large coalition of groups from across the spectrum. They are mainly nonprofit or political groups or small business concerns.... They're all people who can't afford to pay to get their message across.”
“The big nonprofits are getting the attention here, but this isn't really just for them. What about the little guys that are just starting and may not be reaching an audience who wants to hear what they have to say? These are the groups that will lose.”
“If AOL or another ISP decides that someone's a spammer, then no e-mail from that individual gets through. But there's a fundamental difficulty at the heart of the spam debate: The only one who knows what you want delivered in your inbox is you.”
