[80236] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: clarity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Champeon)
Wed Apr 27 14:18:08 2005
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From: Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com>
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on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:19:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Yes, most water transit companies are also the water supply company, but,
> in my analogy, and, in some areas, as a matter of fact, they are not the
> same. The chemical tampering of which you speak is done by the water
> supply company at the supply point before it is put in the pipes for
> transit to the end user.
>
> The water delivery company runs said pipes, and, my expectation from them
> is that they deliver what they got from the water supply company without
> any additional contaminants.
>
> Think of the web hoster as a water supply company. The household user
> is an end user. The ISP is merely a pipeline.
I think the problem isn't with dirty water arriving from the water
company, it's the fact that so many end users are allowing raw sewage to
be poured into /other people's water/, and some ISPs don't feel
compelled to do anything to save other ISPs from their users'
pollutants.
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