Re: EFF whitepaper

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () cybernothing org>]

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.

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J.D. Falk                                                   okay, what's next?
<jdfalk () cybernothing org>