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Starting several months ago emails to me bounced when sent from
Comcast. I contacted Netfirms, my domain host, and they said that it
was on Comcast's end, as they had done everything they could to get
those emails to come through. So apparently I was not alone.<br>
<br>
Haven't had anyone tell me for some little time now that my emails are
bouncing, and I've been getting email from people whose posts to me had
bounced before.<br>
<br>
Judith Alta Kidder<br>
<br>
Bob Kline wrote:
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<p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 10/21/07, <b
class="gmail_sendername">john-thomas richards</b> <<a
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DEFANGED_defanged_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On
Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:28:58PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
Based on my<br>
understanding this company would lose common carrier status and would
then be<br>
liable for illegal activities on its network. Thus, it *is* illegal
for
<br>
Comcast to want to limit how I use my internet connection.<br>
<br>
Then again, I may be all wet. :-)<br>
<br>
[snip, snip, and more snip]<br>
--<br>
john-thomas<br>
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It's pretty clear that Comcast is not very
<br>
proud of what it's doing. Now that it has <br>
been definitively found out, maybe concerned<br>
customers will look in to the legal status of its<br>
actions. I understand that customers cannot<br>
run their Internet connects full bore, 24/7/365,
<br>
but Comcast needs to be more upfront about<br>
its policies - good, bad, or in between.<br>
<br>
It annoys many that the telcos and cable <br>
companies assure Congress that net neutrality<br>
legislation is not needed, only to show that is
<br>
a cynical attempt to help ensure that Congress <br>
does nothing.<br>
<br>
Now to see what Congress does, and whether<br>
it comes down on our side or the Industry's.<br>
<br>
I think I know, but hope otherwise. I'd like to <br>
see the gov't have its own high speed backbone<br>
for for Internet traffic, and then just contract <br>
companies to run it. This has been done with<br>
other gov't communications system. FTS 2000,<br>
a private gov't phone system. And no doubt
<br>
Internet2, which none of us can use unless we<br>
work at a school or lab.<br>
<br>
But we can pay for it....<br>
<br>
The world is tiered in all kinds of different ways.<br>
<br>
-Bob<br>
<br>
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