RE: ISP phishing

From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Brad Knowles
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:48 PM
To: Peter Corlett
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: ISP phishing

> 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<