> When a sufficiently large part of the internet decides that enough is > enough, they can just cut off the part that does not want to > cooperate.
Yes...though I would say "if" rather than "when". > Similar action has been performed to cut off relaying > mail servers and other spam senders. Only the small ones, alas. As long as major fractions of the net consider "too big to block" to be a sane concept (which it really isn't; large sites have both fewer excuses and more power to inflict damage and thus should be held to stricter, not laxer, standards), this enforcement mechanism will remain only a theory. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
