waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:18:51PM -0700, Larry Marks wrote
But I don't want a laissez faire PSTN. I want one with rules and order
so I can get my mail through.
A few questions...
1) Do I have the right to order you to use an el-cheapo laissez-faire
ISP ?
2) Do you have the right to order me to use a high-cost "guaranteed"
business ISP so your email can get through to me?
3) a) Is your answer to 1) above identical to your answer to 2)?
b) If not, why not?
I have no idea where these questions come from. Certainly, they are not
based on anything I said. You are just spilling bile.
You continue, without any justification to deny what is obvious
to any man on the street. Internet mail is a telecommunications
service. ISP stocks are listed in the telecommunications sector. It
is not like the postal service. It's not like FedEx and DHL. These
are all end-to-end services. There are no switches and only a single
bilateral handoffs in the international case. By contrast, PSTN's
infrastructure is totally analagous to that of the ISP.
What's next ? Do you also want to nationalise AOL Instant Messanger ?
Businesses use that too.
Non-responsive. This is your idea, tossed in where it has no
relationship to any of the comments I have made.
I don't want end-to-end guarantees. I don't want special handling. But
I don't want people to interfere with my mail either, as long as
it doesn't violate the law and isn't spam. If it can't be delivered
because of some circumstance beyond control, then fine...
If you want the reliability of a registered letter, send a registered
letter.
Non-responsive. Not related to anything I said.
In this entire response, you have not responded to anything I said. Why
did you bother?
-LM
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