I don't think that the spammers are storing things on your email system. There's a transaction that goes something like this:
Server 1: Hi, you awake?
Server 2: Yep, whaddya want?
Server 1: I have some mail for User1, will you accept it?
Server 2: Sure, I'll accept mail for User1. Send it over.
Server 1: Ok, Here it is.
Server 2: Ok, got it. Need anything else?
Server 1: Nope.
Server 2: Ok, see ya.
The recieving server always makes the decision to accept the gift of the email, or not too. Nothing is being dumped on the recieving machine without permission. As soon as it is accepted, it's the property of the second server, so it's not true that the property of someone else is on your system.
It seems to me that there is a possible error in this study, and here it is:
If the censorware system blocks all domains that have porn in them, the porn may not be at the top level of the domain, and so looking at the top level of the domain could make it apear as if it was not a porn site when it did have adult content on it. For example: I'm sure that there is some porn somewhere on Earthlink.net, so if a system blocked Earthlink.net, they could technically be blocking porn, even if you went to www.earthlink.net it would not appear to be a porn site.
That being said, down with censorware.
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I don't think that the spammers are storing things on your email system. There's a transaction that goes something like this:
Server 1: Hi, you awake?
Server 2: Yep, whaddya want?
Server 1: I have some mail for User1, will you accept it?
Server 2: Sure, I'll accept mail for User1. Send it over.
Server 1: Ok, Here it is.
Server 2: Ok, got it. Need anything else?
Server 1: Nope.
Server 2: Ok, see ya.
The recieving server always makes the decision to accept the gift of the email, or not too. Nothing is being dumped on the recieving machine without permission. As soon as it is accepted, it's the property of the second server, so it's not true that the property of someone else is on your system.
It seems to me that there is a possible error in this study, and here it is:
If the censorware system blocks all domains that have porn in them, the porn may not be at the top level of the domain, and so looking at the top level of the domain could make it apear as if it was not a porn site when it did have adult content on it. For example: I'm sure that there is some porn somewhere on Earthlink.net, so if a system blocked Earthlink.net, they could technically be blocking porn, even if you went to www.earthlink.net it would not appear to be a porn site.
That being said, down with censorware.
Peter Darley