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Article #5765Re: Internet Provider cancels account- is it legal? Can you be next?
From: Kelly Bert Manning
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:56
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:56
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"JustLor" (just_me*nospam*123@hotmail.com) writes: > Thank you Walter for your insight. > > Shaw has finally addressed the economic concerns of their customers and > shareholders. Once example that Internet access is not a right, but a > privilege. > > One can only imagine how many complaints, man hours, investigations, loss of > accounts, organizations and other groups not or removing any affiliation > with Shaw because of this persons actions and conducts. Many ISPs have service clauses allowing them to charge spammers "cleanup fees" for the extra staff and techie time associated with dealing with the aftermath of a spam run and closing the luser's account. A surcharge for dealing with e-mail and usenet abuse wouldn't involve taking that concept too much farther.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f504b,cde0d959ae54f524 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,cde0d959ae54f524 X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 10d2a3,cde0d959ae54f524 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d2a3,public X-Google-Thread: fb1ea,cde0d959ae54f524 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1ea,public X-Google-Thread: 108c64,cde0d959ae54f524 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c64,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-21 17:00:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!torn!cunews!freenet-news!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!bo774 From: bo774@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Kelly Bert Manning) Newsgroups: wpg.general,can.general,tor.general,can.legal,edm.general Subject: Re: Internet Provider cancels account- is it legal? Can you be next? Date: 22 Nov 2002 00:56:22 GMT Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Lines: 17 Message-ID: <arjvbm$dvf$1@freenet9.carleton.ca> References: <66ae96c0.0211191010.5f8e4db@posting.google.com> <arfi0q$2a5$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> <4FXC9.52575$ka.1494100@news1.calgary.shaw.ca> Reply-To: bo774@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Kelly Bert Manning) NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet10 X-Trace: freenet9.carleton.ca 1037926582 14319 134.117.136.30 (22 Nov 2002 00:56:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: complaints@ncf.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Nov 2002 00:56:22 GMT X-Given-Sender: bo774@freenet10.carleton.ca (Kelly Bert Manning)