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Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
From: Jamie Norwood <jamie.norwood () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:56:27 +1000
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:33:49 -0800, Alexei Roudnev <alex () relcom net> wrote:
Heard of a little thing called 'spam'?So what? You can use your car as a weapon; should we prohibit you from car driving?
No, but if your car doesn't have seat belts, we don't let you drive it. Basic SMTP lacks safety features that are needed, ergo, retrictions were placed on it. As was mentioned, my point was just that the question posited was flawed. SMTP isn't restricted for competition and money-making reasons, but because to not restrict it can have quite undesired implications. The question was why was one ok, and the other not. The answer is because of spam. Jamie
Current thread:
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance, (continued)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Jon Lewis (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Bill Nash (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Steve Sobol (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Bill Nash (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Steve Gibbard (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Greg Boehnlein (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Chris Adams (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Jamie Norwood (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Bill Nash (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Alexei Roudnev (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Jamie Norwood (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Steve Gibbard (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Mark Andrews (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Owen DeLong (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Chris Adams (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Owen DeLong (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Owen DeLong (Mar 30)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Eric A. Hall (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Daniel Golding (Mar 31)
- Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance Adrian Chadd (Mar 30)