22 Aug
2002
22 Aug
'02
3:53 p.m.
Do ISP/ASP/*SP's HAVE to provide services if someone knocks on the door requesting them or can they refuse for any reason what so ever?
At my "day job", we routinely refuse service to a large number of people, based on our opinion as to whether the potential revenue stream is worth the expected overheads (labor, bandwidth, etc). It *alway* a *business decision* whether or not sell [a non-protected class] a product.
And it is also a business decision to risk being sued for refusing to provide a product to a protected class or someone claiming to be a member of a protected class. Even boards of NYC coops finally got that real-estate laws do not superceed Bill of Rights. Alex