[79284] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Apr 1 15:54:24 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 15:53:55 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a2937c33050330225673348cdf@mail.gmail.com>; from Jamie Norwood <jamie.norwood@gmail.com> on Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 04:56:27PM +1000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 04:56:27PM +1000, Jamie Norwood wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:33:49 -0800, Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net> wrote:
> > > Heard of a little thing called 'spam'?
> >
> > So what? You can use your car as a weapon; should we prohibit you from car
> > driving?
>
> No, but if your car doesn't have seat belts, we don't let you drive
> it.
Actually, and I think the distinction is pertinent to this discussion,
if the car has no seatbelts, you can drive it just fine -- as long as
it came that way. You can't *sell* a car without seatbelts, anymore.
Cheers,
- jra
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