ISP phishing

Fri Jul 1 16:57:45 UTC 2005

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Brad Knowles
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:48 PM
> To: Peter Corlett
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: ISP phishing
> 
> 
> 
> At 12:20 PM +0000 2005-06-29, Peter Corlett wrote:
> 
> >  Sure Alice has control. Last week, I told my ISP where to 
> stick their
> >  shoddy service and took my business elsewhere.
> 
> 	You're assuming that there are always alternatives 
> available for 
> the entire world population.  While there may usually be alternatives 
> available in the most advanced western societies, you would be 
> surprised at the types of places where you would think that there 
> have to be alternatives, but in fact there aren't any.

It also assumes that there are real differences in the alternatives
in civilized society. In fact, you can only spell "HTTP" so many 
ways. There are less discernable differences these days. 

>you would be 
> surprised at the types of places where you would think that there 
> have to be alternatives, but in fact there aren't any.

There aren't alternatives because of the cost. In other cases the 
national climate i.e. protectionist of the incumbent or desire to 
hold it closely for political reasons i.e. China.

-M<