- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:19:31 +0000
- To: nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
-------- In message <1795983998.434950.1440403898080.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net>, nicol as.mailhot@laposte.net writes: >> For the ISP there would be considerable benefits to making it look >> like origin censorship: It would reduce help-desk workload, it >> would deflect blame for a controversial practice away from the ISP >> etc. etc. > >That only works if the user considers the signal to be reliable. >If one lies about it he won't. > >So to actually reduce helpdesk workload an ISP needs to be very >clear and clean on who blocks what, because otherwise people will >just call the helpdesk by default. And sending "451 Not Allowed by Origin" would certainly do that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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