Does this suck? Yes. However, you are not paying for bandwidth - you are paying to use Cox's connection to the interwebs.
Per some ToS or user agreement, they have the right to do a great many things to THEIR network with out needing to worry about you, me, or anyone else. They can do this. They own the network infrastructure to which you subscribe. Where is your freedom? It is in your ability to choose another, potentially much less convenient, means of accessing the Internet. I don't know of the options, but they are out there. Cox is not making you use their service, but I'll give you that it is hard to find an easy alternative due to the economic/market realities and industry/federal regulations that allow these psuedo-monopolies to continue to exist. Brett On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:04:32PM -0600, willhill wrote: > I will no longer be able to point to my home server on these lists because > Cox > rejects such messages as spam. The message given when I try is: > > /********************************************************************** > Sending failed: > Could not write file The message content was not accepted. > The server responded: "ID_INTENTIONALLY_REMOVED This message was > undeliverable. This message has been found to be a potential spam message, > and has therefore been blocked. Please visit http://coxagainstspam.cox.net > for more information.". > Disk full. > The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem > (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. > The following transport protocol was used: > smtp.east.cox.net > **********************************************************************/ > > I could care less that their disk is stuffed and suspect it is misdirection. > > This censorship is only a minor inconvenience but the message it sends is > ugly. It says, in so many words, that the internet is for your consumption > not participation. Changing messages to point to my physics page gets around > the immediate problem, but most people do not have such a thing nor should > they be forced to host things on someone else's computers. I'm paying for my > bandwith, why can't I use it for what I want? Finally, subscribers now know > that every word of every message sent is filtered. Will they filter my IM > conversations next? > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
