🚀 go-pugleaf

"John Gilmer" <gilmer@crosslink.net> wrote in message
news:3b784bb2$0$31890@dingus.crosslink.net...
> There are two models of usenet:
>
> The first model is that of a quality newspaper "letters" page in which
> people express their thoughts on recent events and other items of interest
> and SIGN their REAL names.
>
> The second model is that of a dirty "restroom" in an X rated theatre.
> "People" just write what they please and insult whom they please.

Your oversimplified view of the world makes no provision for those people
who own their own domains, and who post or email from various addresses at
those domains as a valid and effective communications management tool, and
who now cannot do so. These addresses are just as "REAL" and directly
associable with their owners as any ISP account.

One of the reasons for owning a domain is to have a literally life-long
valid email address, rather than what passes for "lifetime" in the Internet
world of collapsing dot-coms. Most hosting services offer POP or IMAP
service only, not SMTP.

I sent Verizon a long, polite letter of complaint about this new policy and
got back a page of the subject crapola signed by a PR person who wouldn't
know SMTP from ordinary TP. I'm voting by terminating Verizon and going to
Earthlink DSL.

-- Larry