Email and the right to free speech

[David Collier-Brown]

On 04/17/2014 04:00 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On 04/17/2014 03:47 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>> On 04/17/2014 03:24 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 02:40:53PM -0400, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>>>> [long answer, sorry...]
>>>>
>>>> I can vote with my feet, being an individual, and did. My main address
>>>> is at spamcop.
>>>>
>>>> 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 (;-))
>>> You do generally have choices other than Rogers and Bell.  Teksavvy is
>>> quite a popular one around this group.
>>>
>> Yes, and they're from Chatham, my home town!
>>
>> However, they aren't the owners of wires on poles, and that oligopoly
>> can make it exceedingly hard for anyone who isn't one of the
>> club-of-two.  Tek almost got killed when the "duopoly" decide to
>> introduce usage caps. If it weren't for the CRTC, they'd be toast.
>>
>> For a free market, TekSavvy is necessary. Regrettably, they're not
>> sufficient.
> Dave, what does any of that have to do with who provides email services
> for you? I'm sure you know that you always have the option of using an
> email provider that is independent of your ISP whether it's a no-cost
> service, like Gmail, or a paid service that hosts you-FBj3rGVNSafJGjvyiQTEsA at public.gmane.org
> Email and other services are easy to decouple from who provides Internet
> access for you. I've always treated my ISP as a provider of access and
> nothing else which is why to change from Rogers to TekSavvy didn't have
> any impact on anything other than my wallet as I got mostly better
> service for less money. I didn't have to change my email addresses with
> all the hassle that would have entailed.
>
I've always used a non-Rogers email, spamcop, from the day I first got
cable.  (My outbound feed uses a Rogers server only because of their
firewall rules). I'm not the only person in the world, though, and all
sorts of other people are at risk.

--dave

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