-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:06 PM, JC Dill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dave Rand wrote: >> >> I'm fond of getting the issues addressed by getting the ISPs to be >> involved >> with the problem. If that means users get charged "clean up" fees >> instead >> of a "security" fee, that's fine. > > "I urge all my competitors to do that." > > The problem isn't that this is a bad idea, the problem is that it's a bad > idea to be the first to do it. You want to be the last to do it. You > want all other companies to do it first - to charge their customers more > (while you don't charge more and take away some of their business) to pay > for this cost. > > It only works if everyone has to charge their customers, and the change > (from no surcharge to mandatory charge) will have to happen universally > and at the same time - which will never happen. Welcome to the anarchy. > Again, you can all continue to dance around and ignore the problem & chance the probability that the U.S. Government will step in and force you to do it. Pick your poison. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFMDxcQq1pz9mNUZTMRAgFRAKDX0N+DYck8tiOyRPMJ2E31fq0vEQCfVJEp dQuZqomm/Z42gZRgzshlLsc= =mRrQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
