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Re: clarity

  • From: Steven Champeon
  • Date: Wed Apr 27 14:19:38 2005

on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:19:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Yes, most water transit companies are also the water supply company, but,
> in my analogy, and, in some areas, as a matter of fact, they are not the
> same.  The chemical tampering of which you speak is done by the water
> supply company at the supply point before it is put in the pipes for
> transit to the end user.
> 
> The water delivery company runs said pipes, and, my expectation from them
> is that they deliver what they got from the water supply company without
> any additional contaminants.
> 
> Think of the web hoster as a water supply company.  The household user
> is an end user.  The ISP is merely a pipeline.

I think the problem isn't with dirty water arriving from the water
company, it's the fact that so many end users are allowing raw sewage to
be poured into /other people's water/, and some ISPs don't feel
compelled to do anything to save other ISPs from their users'
pollutants.

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