>> Right now I have freedom of communication. In your vision I would hand >> all that over to my ISP for the benefit of giving complete control over >> who can communicate with me to them. > Perhaps you could explain to me just how you > currently manage to get port 25 packets delivered > to your friends without transitting your ISP? > Or did you just mean "freedom of communication" > in a rhetorical sense?
Because it's not hitting the disks in their mail spool, nor are the sender and receiver checked against any policy databases. > And if you will trust an ISP to deliver port 25 > packets then why wouldn't you trust them to > deliver email messages? Because the packets are an order of magnitude easier to do than e-mail, and the orders only keep rising when the number of subscriber rises. IP service is ubiquitous, your proposal would make an important service running on top of it not anymore. -- Niels. -- The idle mind is the devil's playground