--On Wednesday, April 27, 2005 6:36 +0000 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:38:00PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
I think it's absurd. I expect my water delivery company not to add polutants in transit. I expect my water production company to provide clean water.
er.. bad analogy warning... please take a sample of tap water to an independent lab for analysis... and find out just what the water company is putting into your water.
Admittedly, there are contaminants in the water, but, I don't believe most of them are added in transit. (If I did, I'd be putting pressure on to get that fixed). If you're talking about fluoridation, I am fortunate enough to live in an area where they figured out that was a bad idea.
This is like asking the phone company to prevent minors from hearing swear-words on telephone calls or prevent people from being able to make prank phone calls from pay-phones.
more bad analogies... :)
Why is this a bad analogy? Neither of these actions are currently prevented by the telcos.
that said, if you don't want your ISP to diddle your packets, may i suggest IPSEC?
Sometimes I use IPSEC, but, I don't want my ISP to diddle my packets whether they're tunneled or not. Fortunately, so far, I've been able to find ISPs that don't. Owen