At 1:14 PM -0600 4/2/03, Eric S. Imsand wrote:
system, similar to SSL, is that the certificates can be
revoked.
Instead of asking networks to pay huge sums of money to
other
people, why not charge them
ISPs will not (for very legitimate legal reasons in the
U.S.) accept anything that makes them liable for the
action of their users. In order to be positive that
100,000 users couldn't lose their email access from the
actions of one user, they would have to seriously lock
down internet user. They'd have to install servers to
block or monitor any outbound email port. They'd also
have to do incoming blocking of port 80 to make sure that
nobody had any open proxies or other things that could
screw them up. Basically, they'd have to put an
incredible amount of effort into stopping any
illegitimate behavior on the part of their users.
Currently they are incented to do that--but they aren't
mandated. That means that they can way the cost/benefit
and decide at what point it's okay to just close
someone's account after a few hours rather than try and
prevent the problem from occuring. That's a huge
difference.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so
unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so
eager to regulate
everyone else's.