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Subject: Re: AOL blocking --- lawsuit filed
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora @ skylands . ibmwr . org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:23:52 -0400
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
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At 12:26 AM -0400 08/28/2003, murr rhame wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Tom Coradeschi wrote:
>
>>  At 07:00 AM -0400 08/27/2003, Alan B. Clegg wrote:
>>
>>  >For those that are interested, it seems that someone has
>>  >finally gotten up the nerve (or whatever it takes) to sue AOL
>>  >for their blocking practices.
>>  >
>>  >http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/6597267.htm
>>
>  > By all accounts CI is a spam haven. Let's hope AOL cleans their
>>  clocks (gawd, I can't believe I wrote that).
>
>Spam haven or not, I don't like the precedent of a court forcing
>an ISP to accept email from another ISP.  One of the few
>inalienable rights you have on the net is the right to refuse to
>listen.

I agree wholeheartedly, hence my comment "Let's hope AOL cleans their clocks".

                  tom coradeschi <+> tcora@skylands.ibmwr.org
          Skylands (NJ) BMW Riders <+> <http://skylands.ibmwr.org/>


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