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wpns@miki.pictel.com (Willie Smith) writes:

>[BTW: I didn't get the junk mail, didn't send anything to the idiots
>who sent it out, and think the folks who sold them network services
>should have ensured they knew what the net _was_ before taking their
>money.]

And whose version of "what the network is" would you like presented?
I daresay my opinions of "what the net is" varies just about 180 
degrees from the whiners who have posted in this thread.  I fully 
support the commercialization of the net (note the present tense.)  
I believe the responsibility for filtering "illegal" traffic lies with those 
who declare it illegal.  I realize that network users who have to live with 
some kind of AUP are responsible for meeting those obligations and not the 
rest of the net.  I believe that pretty much anything not illegal is 
permissible, at least until asked not to do so by an individual and then only
relative to that individual.  I believe the rules of net.conduct should
NOT be set by mob rule of a few loudmouths.

The above is the view of the net my paying customers receive.  You or someone
else might not like it and may disagree with it but you can't do anything
about it.  That's just the way the net is.

John
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