Owen DeLong wrote:
No... The negligent ISPs end up with all the abusing customers and have a hard time getting transit themselves. Eventually, you end up with two internets... One run by and for the abusers and negligent, one for everyone else. I have no problem with that.
There should be a twelve-step program for people like me who can't stay out of a discussion.... I think we are already on our way to a multiple-Internet world, with the CB-radio model of everybody shouting about all manner of stuff ranging from very useful to utter sewage (uttered sewage?), and the vpn model (note lowercase attempt at a generalizing term) of encrypted tunnels, firewall rules, DNSBLs, challenged response, SPF, et alia. Implicit in the latter is a prior negotiation and rules-of-contact setting, meaning no contact via the Internet by parties unknown. I wonder if a 500 kc-like "calling" channel with very tight and enforced rules will emerge somehow. -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net/larrysheldon/