On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:19:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
perhaps you mis-read. water companies -always- add things to water, to kill off germs, balance mineral content, etc.. they do this to -meet- the "higher" standards. and by their tampering, they pollute the water... their pollution may make the water drinkable and safe. does n ot change the fact that the water was tampered with.
Bill, I was very specific about transit.
Yes, most water transit companies are also the water supply company, but, in my analogy, and, in some areas, as a matter of fact, they are not the same. The chemical tampering of which you speak is done by the water supply company at the supply point before it is put in the pipes for transit to the end user.
And this was my point as well, Owen... but I have to admit, it didn't *look* to me like this was the point you were making in your original message; perhaps I misread you as well.
The water delivery company runs said pipes, and, my expectation from them is that they deliver what they got from the water supply company without any additional contaminants.
Actually, no, this is the point he's making. The Florida West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority is not the one that adds chemicals and the like to the water around here; The St Petersburg Water System, or Pinellas County Utilities do that, before the water arrives at retail.
Think of the web hoster as a water supply company. The household user is an end user. The ISP is merely a pipeline.
And *here*, we get into "what's an ISP, really; and how do we distinguish that from the other things people do with packets?" Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me