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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">[long answer, sorry...]<br>
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I can vote with my feet, being an individual, and did. My main
address is at spamcop.<br>
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Regrettably, we have a severe lack of wires-on-poles providers,
and mine, Rogers, is foolish enough to have partnered with Yahoo.
My other choice is Bell, who is indistinguishably better or worse.
I sure can't tell which (;-))<br>
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The concern in my mind is that companies of a sufficient size
consider themselves to be in a thieves market: so long as they're
not painfully worse that the other crooks, the suckers get
fleeced. If the suckers go somewhere else, they still get fleeced.
If they go somebody small (spamcop, tek savvy), it doesn't matter.
If the someone small gets big, the either get squeezed out, or
they play by the rules of the market and become thieves
themselves.<br>
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This was the situation, BTW, before the beginning of
(international) commercial law in the middle ages (1600 or so) for
merchants in the Hanseatic League. They had no standing in the
courts, which only did criminal law, and so had to create they own
set of norms, get broad agreement among themselves and then make
deal with the local princes to have them play from the same
rulebook. Amusingly, their other problem was pirates, the kind
with sailing ships.<br>
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Yahoo doing harm to its customers in the 'net world, where there
is only a weak set of rules, and no bill of rights from the
"princes" to give us standing in their courts. Fortunately there
is as broad an agreement as to what is normal and fair as there
was in "German village law", and Yahoo is well outside the norms.
That I can use "censorship" "free speech" and have people
understand me (and not reply with "WTF"). <br>
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My suspicion, and hope, is that Yahoo can learn to behave on the
net as if they were in a free market. They're already working with
the Berkman centre at Harvard *on that very subject*.<br>
<br>
I suspect one hand doesn't know what the other is doing, which is
common in large companies.<br>
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--dave<br>
[I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one
- Mark Twain]<br>
[I'm waiting for a compile]<br>
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On 04/17/2014 01:25 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/17/2014 12:51 PM, David
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I'd certainly consider it censorship, however much some people
insist that a company is incapable of censorship.<br>
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We don't have competition in governments, at least not until there
is an election, but we have no shortage of competition in email
hosting providers. Yahoo is certainly not the only game in town so
you have the option of voting with your feet. If enough people do
that, and I hope they do, Yahoo is rendered even more irrelevant
than they already are.<br>
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Regards,
Clifford Ilkay
647-778-8696
Dinamis
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David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
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