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Good job Pal, welcome to the real internet!!!

"pltrgyst" <pltrgyst@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
news:fbae7.371$ij.124071@typhoon1.gnilink.net...
> "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
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