Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:26:42 +0100, Frank de Lange
<frank(_at_)unternet(_dot_)org> said:
believe this will sort itself out, if some ISP (or mail service
provider, or ...) were to impose too onerous terms and conditions users
would just move to another ISP.
And the *other* broadband provider in your area is?
This is a serious question - if there's only one provider in your area who
provides service better than dialup-56K, and they insist on shanghai'ing port
25 and filtering the bejeebers out of it, what do you do?
Actually, there is NO broadband provider in my area... That's one of the
reasons for building a free wireless network...
It is also one of the reasons do decouple my mail from the ISP I use.
I've moved ISP's several times because of the reason stated above (as
well as for others), and have received mail in one of several ways. Not
ideal, but the only way to keep control. And that is quite important to
me, *I* want to be in control of my mail. Not my ISP, not the operator
of some blacklist (one of my reasons for not using those), not the
government. Not even the IETF :-)
Frank
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