Actually, there maybe something here that's being overlooked. If a common carrier is blocking access to specific sites (or specific IP blocks) they're arguably no longer a common carrier. -- Michael Fraase ARTS & FARCES LLC mfraase at farces.com www.farces.com PGP Fingerprint: 3D85 F3F4 9E65 4949 176A 260C CB47 190D C864 9A96 > -----Original Message----- > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Rick Engebretson wrote: > > Very clever detective work. ATT owes their customers (and > the internet > > community) an explaination. Nobody is supposed to own the > internet any > > more than the public road system. You pay your access fee. > If ATT (or > > MSN, etc.) tries to become a traffic cop, bring in the lawyers. > > I bet the AUP specifically says that they aren't responsible > for any unreachability, etc.. which also means that they can > cause the unreachability if they so desire. > > From the discussions I've read on this topic, something like > that'd never make it in court.. 'course, if you wanna try it, > we'd all be glad to see if someone can actually pull it off. :) > > Anyways, if they're getting flooded, it's not exactly their fault..