[brlug-general] Blocking port 25 does not cure spam problems.

[willhill]

For a minute there, I thought you were trying to rile me.

I'm not really being repetitive either.  Most web sites that look at the 
network neutrality issue don't really look at it from a fundamental human 
rights or software freedom standpoint.  You can search for combinations of 
terms like "port block" and "software freedom" and not come up with much.  
The threads of a coherent view are there but no one has pulled them all 
together where I've looked.  I've tried gnu.org, fsf.org, eff.org and all the 
usual suspects.  The debate is polluted with WIPO and other commercial 
interest language that obscures the simple issue and it's consequences:

I'm paying for bits that I can't use as I please.  

On Sunday 23 September 2007 4:53 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>  Will, you sound like a broken record. We understand your
> position on this.  ... I'm sure I'll be confronted with your
> position again and again over the next few days

On Sunday 23 September 2007 8:10 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Saying you are playing a broken record is not an insult. It's the same
> as saying someone is "beating a dead horse with a stick" or "going in
> circles". That's a comment on what is being said (over and over), not
> the person saying it. :)