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"gutz" <dondoherty@canada.com> wrote in message
news:vkpotughjjfqooicv6ucbck8q1nq53j79c@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 04:31:34 GMT, "Sharx." <sharx35@nospam.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Walter Roberson" <roberson@ibd.nrc.ca> wrote in message
> >news:arhn62$5h2$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca...
> >> In article <4pUC9.14742$bh1.1893189@news1.telusplanet.net>,
> >> Sharx. <sharx35@nospam.ca> wrote:
> >> :ISP's should be considered utilities.....EPCOR doesn't care what I do
> >with
> >> :my power or water.....as long as I pay the bill and don't damage their
> >> :infrastructure.
> >>
> >> EPCOR likely *does* care about what you do with your power and
> >> water: you probably just never set about exploring all the
> >> different ways that you could be a public nuisance by using
> >> the service EPCOR provides. If you were, for example, to deliberately
> >> start flooding the street to annoy your neighbours, then you
> >> shouldn't be surprised if EPCOR turned off your supply.
> >
> >Nope, EPCOR wouldn't care. However the City Police and/or Bylaw
Enforcement
> >officials WOULD care. I'd be ticketed and/our summonsed to court. But my
> >water supply would be untouched...as long as I paid for all that water.
Same
> >thing if I used electricity to do nasty things to people touching my
metal
> >gates. City Police would be interested but EPCOR? Not.
>
> Your neighbour fails to pay his bill and is cut off by EPCOR. You then
> have an electrician splice a power line to your neighbours house, from
> yours thus supplying him with power and removing the incentive for him
> to pay his bill. Do you not think EPCOR would not frown on such
> activity?

Naturally, when a supply of something that is NORMALLY metered is obtained
bypassing the metering system,  a crime has been committed, e.g. theft.
However, if DB simply started hanging out at his buds, using THEIR net
connection...no detectable offense has occured as Net usage normally is not
metered...though it certainly is by certain other ISP's.


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> gutz