[ga] Slightly off topic - Bortzmeyer, AOL, and Email "big providers" to Spam Control

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All former DNSO GA members and other interested stakeholders/users,

  From a stakeholder/user view some of you may find this very
interesting...
See: http://www.circleid.com/article.php?id=917_0_1_0_C/

By Stephane Bortzmeyer | Posted on Jan 28, 2005 @ 1:29 AM PST

  ">Should anyone be allowed to operate an email system? Perhaps
   not.

 This summarizes nicely AOL's view of the world. Unlike the current
 architecture of the email system, only big providers should be
 allowed.

 Things are much easier when you are big: you can block people's
 email and they are forced to go through whatever you require
 because they cannot afford being unable to send email to AOL.

 But most small ISP cannot afford to do the same. So, in the end, only
 AOL will survive and the world will be a better place, clean and safe."

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  I get the distinct impression that Stephane Bortzmeyer and/or AOL
seems to believe that if your a small or medium sized internet provider
and/or ISP or an individual domain name holder using your own
domain and do your own hosting you really don't exist or don't
qualify as a stakeholder/user at all...  Of course I find this attitude
to be unrealistic and preposterous in the extreme...

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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