At 09:48 AM 6/25/96 -0700, Timothy C. May wrote:

I suspect other major ISPs will adopt similar language, absent a vocal lobbying group for anonymous messaging capabilities.

So all you have to do is copy the whole statement, delete the offending passages, and mail it to your ISP as a counter offer to their proposed contract. You can explicitly disclaim the language you don't like. This sets up a long and interesting negotiation process during which you can try to get them to define what they mean by the terms. Since they haven't defined any of this stuff (indecency?) it's all kind of meaningless. Businesses usually won't cut you off over a mere refusal on your part to accept a contract. They wait for an overt act. Might even work in the case of someone like me who pays AT&T $2K/month or more. Then you can get a real ISP. I have found that if you are well-behaved in a social sense, you can get away with all sorts of controversial stuff. I kept firearms in my college dorm just because I argued my RA into ignoring same (he had bows and hunting arrows). He knew I wasn't a psycho. I expect that AT&T will ignore what you do unless it kicks back to them so use them for net access but don't use them for mail. Run your own mail server or keep a shell account somewhere else. DCF