Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers
At 14:17 1/1/96, Mike McNally wrote:
Seems to me at as soon as things like a general-purpose browser (and associated TCP/IP stack & PPP or SLIP) becomes as easy to load up as an AOL demo disk, and local ISP's are listed in the yellow pages, the advantage of being able to pay a provider for nothing more than the routing of IP packets so that the net as a whole can be explored (and, perhaps, more services purchased) will FAR outweigh any of the goodies the current big providers offer.
But how many of them will be willing to forward certain newsgroups if doing so carries a mandatory 10 year prison term? Hint: count the number of narcotics dealers that advertize in your local yellow pages. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.
Lucky Green writes:
But how many of them [ IP providers ] will be willing to forward certain newsgroups if doing so carries a mandatory 10 year prison term? Hint: count the number of narcotics dealers that advertize in your local yellow pages.
But an IP provider doesn't have to know that it's "forwarding" *any* newsgroups; all it has to know is that IP packets are moving between my PC and the outside world. It doesn't have any way of knowing what those packets contain and doesn't want to. The Internet is more than news, FTP, the web, and so on primarily because it's so much *less*. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Nobody's going to listen to you if you just | Mike McNally (m5@tivoli.com) | | stand there and flap your arms like a fish. | Tivoli Systems, Austin TX | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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