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From: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
I don't think anyone should be colluding to hurt Cogent or anyone else for that matter and this thread appears to be heading in this direction.
I suspect a distinction could be made in court by a competent attorney between "colluding to hurt Cogent" and "collaborating to keep Cogent's ill-chosen policies from hurting the utility of the greater Internet". The Law does not guarantee *any* business the unsullied right to conduct its business in any particular way and expect that always to work; companies much newer than buggy-whip manufacturers have long since learned that. [ I am not an attorney; if my advice breaks something, you get to keep both pieces. ] Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274