From: Barry Shein <bzs(_at_)world(_dot_)std(_dot_)com>
...
> The no-call list specifically is used by consumers such as YOUR ISP
subscribers who PAY you. They are soliciting this information by signing up
> on the FTC's website.
So by your reasoning because most people pay for their telephone
service then AT&T should allow the FTC to just make millions of free
phone calls to them all over the country (or world) to deliver these
confirmations.
...
That's a nonsense analogy. You're like a cell phone carrier instead
of a long distance carrier. Like a U.S. cell phone carrier, your
paying customer is the recipient of the message. Cell phone carriers
don't whine when their customers burn all of their minutes on phone-sex
or even on frauds routed to island nations. Instead they raise rates
or cancel customer accounts. If your customers are receiving too much
mail of any sort including spam for what they pay you, then you should
either raise your rates or terminate their accounts.
No matter how much you'd like a piece of AT&T's pie or a cut of the
action of any third party that sends content to your customers by
SMTP, HTTP, or any other IP protocol, you have no reasonable claim,
at least not unless you make a private deal AOL and others. If you
don't have AOL's clout to get other big outfits to pay for your
customer's "eyes," then you have my sympathy, but only a little.
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com
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