On 11/16/04, Fred Heutte <aoxomoxoa@sunlightdata.com> wrote:

I doubt that the participants in this discussion who are getting so huffy about the EFF position are ready to tolerate a situation where unknown third parties can arbitrarily block any email they send or receive, without informing them, regardless of content.

Think about how that maps to the present situation.

I can certainly understand how end users or senders would feel that way, and many ISP's need to start doing a much better job of communicating their policies to their customers -- that's certainly not restricted to e-mail. However, using the EFF's hard-won and extremely critical influence to restrict an ISP's ability to manage their own systems doesn't seem like a good long-term solution to that problem. -- J.D. Falk okay, what's next? <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>