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Non-Volatile RAM - In article , Danny Burstein wrote: Each and every ISP, in order to gain continued connectivity, simply has to establish terms of service (and enforce them) in a way so as to prevent its customers from spamming. (see below for my suggestion) If the East Cupcake Bakery and Internet Service allows its customers to spam, then we cut it off. Pure and Simple. It and its spammers can cheerfully wallow in the smelly pit of their own putrid intranet. Yes, some non spamming customers will get hurt. But that is NOT my problem.Your *own* customers also get hurt, since they can't communicate withall the other customers of ECBIS. If the ISP that you cut off is muchbigger than you, your customers will be more inconvenienced than theother ISP is by your boycott.Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.eduArlington, MA[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Not really, Barry. Yes, there would besome disruptions for a short time as people migrated off of non-complying ISPs to the ones who complied, but that would not take toolong to get resolved. Take for example AOHell, one of the biggestISPs. If they chose not to go along, most of their customers wouldraise a lot of hell about not being able to get 'internet' any longer.Consider a couple years ago when the German government cracked downon 'internet pornography' and the various alt newsgroups for sexforcing Compuserve to quit providing the alt newsgroups. CISsubscribers just about went crazy. Same thing would happen with anyof the *big* ISPs whose output to the net was no longer accepted.So you would not be able to 'talk' with your friends on that parti-cular ISP for a couple weeks while *they* scrambled around to finda new ISP to use. That's all. PAT]
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