Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 23:09:46 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many customers read news (was Re: News...) Message-ID: <1601.861775786@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:30:44 PDT." <Pine.BSI.3.93.970422195433.20794Z-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
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Ummm. No offense, but this has turned into an entire meta-discussion, and at this point (perhaps long before it in fact :) it's generally considered reasonable to take it into a smaller forum, like a private cc list. I'm not saying that the legal issues raised here are not germain to ISPs the world over, I'm simply saying that the process of defining the problem is consuming so much bandwidth that at this point, I think the cost/benefit ratio has passed below what's generally considered reasonable in a mailing list supposedly dedicated to FreeBSD-specific issues in the ISP market. I also think that this is more a failure in classification than of communication, and I'm not trying to "gag" anyone's discussion of child pornography and its applicability (or lack thereof) to the business of Internet Service Provision today. I simply think it should go into a different, more appropriately targeted forum - say "isp-content-issues@isp-alliance.net" or something suitably self- descriptive. Why *don't* ISPs have their own industry-wide or region-wide mailing lists to discuss entirely architecture-and-OS-neutral topics like this, for that matter? The very existance of this discussion here would seem to point up a distressing lack of infrastructure for this. Wake up and organize yourselves, guys (and gals)! You hardly need to hijack a FreeBSD mailing list in order to have this kind of discussion, and creating a more appropriate ISP communications forum with all the more-than-ample resources at your command would be a proposal certain to receive my whole and enthusiastic blessing! :-) Jordan
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