>Many ISPs routinely use DHCP as an means to degrade their customers' 
>address stability, forcing them change addresses as often as once a day,
>in order to prevent their customers from running certain kinds of 
>applications.

Yeah, and others do the same thing by, say, having their firewalls block 
incoming connections to port 80.  That doesn't mean that firewalls 
shouldn't exist.

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