I skimmed through this thread and I think your point about competition is mis-directed. Whether Cox should be forced to compete with others in the ISP-market is not actually relevant here, whether you are right or wrong about the need for competition in the ISP market.
The spam filtering/censorship issue you noted is with the "Cox Email Service". There is a hugely competitive field for that, from free to not-so-free, e.g., Yahoo Mail, GMail, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and others. To me, complaining about Cox as an ISP when the issue is with a Cox Email Account is like complaining about the lack of competition for Interstates because you don't like the car you're driving. -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration 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
