On 8/9/06, Noel <noel.butler@ausics.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 07:39, Aaron Glenn wrote:
That (blocking SMTP) could become illegal is some proposed "net neutrality" legislation is passed.
Man, I really butchered that one. I look so much smarter when I don't post on NANOG...
hahaha try enforcing that in other countries
That has never stopped the US from making terrible policy (-:
also, most networks are private (not state run) therefore we have the right to say yes/no what data enters our own network, because unless unless a contract (payment) exists for the senders ISP to receivers ISP to accept data off them, the senders ISP can be told to go to hell :)
We're talking about owned Windows boxes on consumer/retail access networks (cable/dsl/whathaveyou).