On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:17:54 -0600 Steven Alligood <st...@bluehost.com> wrote:
> ROFL. > > It should be illegal to put up advertising billboards, just because > you don't like them? > > How about commercials on TV? Let's make those illegal as well, how > dare they put advertising in my shows? Actually, not a bad idea; I might try watching broadcast TV again after a 20 year hiatus. Seriously, I don't think Robert's was to advertising but to an ISP hijacking DNS service. I think the concept of a common carrier enters here. A common carrier simply schleps cargo, whether wheat and coal, or bits of data, without discrimination: so much per ton or so much per megabyte. Here, I don't think Sprint was acting as a common carrier. I have no problem with an ISP or railway not being a common carrier, but they should know that when they start mucking with customers' cargo, they are going to get pushback. For one thing, a web site that monitors and edits user content must meet a higher standard of good taste than one that does not. Also, they should make it clear to new and current users that that's what they do. That Sprint was mucking with Robert's DNS without telling him so was unacceptable. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
