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Subject: Re: large ISPs blocking mailing lists
From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey @ goldmark . org>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:21:16 -0700 (PDT)
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In-reply-to: <ylbsbfkjen.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Reply-to: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey @ goldmark . org>


> [...] It makes me think some serious shaking out needs to happen in the
> ISP industry, and I'm really wondering if the future of Internet
> connectivity isn't paying one company to just provide you with a pipe
> and paying a different company that actually knows something about mail
> to provide you with mail services.

This is exactly what I do.  I fetch my mail from my hosting company.  My
connection is provided by my local clueless cable monopoly and I read and
post news through news.cis.dfn.de.

Unfortunately, I still PAY my local clueless cable monopoly for all of
these services.

-j

-- 
Jeffrey Goldberg                            http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/
Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice




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