Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd)

2003-01-19 Thread Måns Nilsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, January 14, 2003 13:00:38 +0100 Mikael Abrahamsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had great respect for Axelsson before this incident, after seeing his > behaviour more up close I nowadays loathe him for his methods. > > Let's put

Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread David Schwartz
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:25:51 -0500 (EST), Miles Fidelman wrote: >This is why ISPs should be treated as common carriers - just like >telcos. >The primary characteristic of common carriers is that they HAVE TO >serve >all customers except under very tightly controlled circumstance, >like a >court o

Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Paul Wouters wrote: > In the second round, Axelsson went shopping for connectivity. He > got the one quote after the other with the standard "we will be > pleased to welcome you as a customer", but shortly later the one > ISP after the other backed off until none was left. At

Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Paul Wouters wrote: > > This is exactly why ISP's should not be allowed to have these "we will > > disconnect you at our sole discretion" clauses. > > You can't forbid them. Private enterprises have (and should have) every > right to manage their own business as they want. Ju

Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Wouters
] To: Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: NYT on Thing.net Paul Wouters wrote: > > Perhaps Zenon (Whom I cc:ed just because he knows the details) can > shed some more light on this. I hosted and am still hosting a partial mirror of the old Flashback, including the nazi

Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Wouters
ECTED] To: Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: NYT on Thing.net Paul Wouters wrote: > > For those who do not know, Flashback is a Swedish e-zine, that had about a > million subscribers. The longer away from the sea, the bigger the fish get. Something in the order of a hund

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-13 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
(I think I am close to get a notice from Susan so this will be my last posting on this to Nanog) The upstream (Air2net?) basically shrugged their shoulders. Fries went to the upstream's upstream while at the same time he mounted Air2net was a transit customer of KPNQwest (and not a resell

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-13 Thread J.F. Noonan
onan Rigaku/MSC Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded //Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:43:44 -0500 //From: t byfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //Subject: Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd) hi, nanogers -- adam, yeah, as a matter of fact, you are off-base. for starters, you seem t

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-13 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
Just for the record, your story above is far from complete and not true on all accounts. It is also a quite simplified version of what happened. Perhaps Zenon (Whom I cc:ed just because he knows the details) can shed some more light on this. Well, I was (still is) a member of the Swedish Oper

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: > Just for the record, your story above is far from complete and not true > on all accounts. It is also a quite simplified version of what > happened. Perhaps Zenon (Whom I cc:ed just because he knows the details) can shed some more light on th

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-13 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
This has been a discussion item in the Swedish ISP business for quite some time (for a reason). The matter is actually a lot more complex than what you say above. How ironic, would that be because of Flashback magazine? :) To some extent, but not recently. Mostly due to child-porn, TV deco

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: > This has been a discussion item in the Swedish ISP business for quite > some time (for a reason). > The matter is actually a lot more complex than what you say above. How ironic, would that be because of Flashback magazine? :) For those who do

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-12 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
Uhm. If an ISP has a policy catch-all clause of "We can disconnect customers at will, without reason" then you get what you deserve, responsibility for your actions. After a few big money costing lawsuits over this, I hope ISP's will return to their common-carrier status. I have no hopes that th

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-10 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2003-01-09-13:13:23, batz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I suppose that any ISP can turn off a connection they deem > a threat to the rest of their operations, but I think this > incident can serve as an example of how ISP's can get dragged > into political spats. It shows how Verio was

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, batz wrote: > I suppose that any ISP can turn off a connection they deem > a threat to the rest of their operations, but I think this > incident can serve as an example of how ISP's can get dragged > into political spats. It shows how Verio was manipulated > by Dow to squelc

NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-09 Thread batz
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