wrote:
>> So what would you have ICANN do about spam and other forms of
>> anti-social net behavior?
> The same thing that SRI did, before ICANN existed. Disconnect sites
> that refuse to control their problem customers.
SRI never did that.
There is no "internet backbone", and "backbone sites" were never effective at cutting off access to problem sites even when most email moved by UUCP and there _was_ such a backbone.
Thor Lancelot Simon snipped-for-privacy@rek.tjls.com
"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky