 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
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Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5 | reply to patcat88
Re: Well one good thing about Mr. Teleco Throttling and spam blocking are very different.
Throttling is a network-layer activity. You are interfering with the TCP/IP behavior, often using secret methods. Even if it is well disclosed, most U.S. customers do not have sufficient choices among broadband providers to choose between those who throttle and those who do not.
Blocking spam is an mail server or mail application-level activity. (I'll use mail as my example, but the applies to IM, VOIP, P2P, and etc.) There is no lack of competion among mail providers. Unlike broadband ISPs, consumers are free and able to compare many mail providers in healthy competition with one another, choosing one that performs the job to their satisfaction.
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Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon
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