What are your thoughts on.....

In article , Dylan Smith wrote:
quote me on that!) The higher frequencies attenuate more than the lower
ones - so if you're a long way from the phone exchange, RADSL will tend
to lower your download
^^^^^^^^

should have been UPLOAD speed!

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

In article , Roger Halstead wrote:
I will make a prediction. It won't be long and ALL e-mail will have
to have a valid return address. There will be no more legal anonymous
addressing, or posting.

I don't think it'll be long either until you need a license to operate
an MTA (just like you need a radio license to operate an amateur radio
rig). With the amount of mail abuse that's happening, something's got to
give. If people were responsible for the abuse eminating from their MTA,
(i.e. could lose their license to operate the MTA - in the case of an
ISP, the whole ISP would find themselves with a suspended license and
unable to send email) they'd be a damned sight more careful about making
sure that the abuse could be minimized.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

In article , Roger Halstead
wrote:

I will make a prediction. It won't be long and ALL e-mail will have
to have a valid return address. There will be no more legal anonymous
addressing, or posting.

don't confuse email with usenet.

--
Bob Noel

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:50:57 GMT, Bob Noel
wrote:

In article , Roger Halstead
wrote:

I will make a prediction. It won't be long and ALL e-mail will have
to have a valid return address. There will be no more legal anonymous
addressing, or posting.

don't confuse email with usenet.

I'm referring to both.

Given the direction regulations and lack of knowledge have been
following, I'd almost bet that within a few years it will be illegal
to send e-mail,*OR* post on news groups without a valid return
address. At least they are going to try.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

In article , Roger Halstead
wrote:

I will make a prediction. It won't be long and ALL e-mail will have
to have a valid return address. There will be no more legal anonymous
addressing, or posting.

don't confuse email with usenet.

I'm referring to both.

Given the direction regulations and lack of knowledge have been
following, I'd almost bet that within a few years it will be illegal
to send e-mail,*OR* post on news groups without a valid return
address. At least they are going to try.

But a valid return address wrt usenet is what? the poster's email
address? But email isn't usenet, and having an email address should
never be a requirement for using usenet (after all, they are two
entirely different systems).

I'm hoping that you're thinking that there will be no anomyous
posting on usenet (which is different than requiring posters to
use a valid email address).

--
Bob Noel

Bob Noel wrote:
Roger Halstead:

I can think of no reason not to block mail from dynamic IP hosts.

that doesn't mean there are any valid reasons to block all
email from dynamic IP hosts.

Virii and spam come to mind... Pick any one, much less both...