>
>>
>> >Who's the provider that's willing to connect pericles.com to the Internet
>> >for the purpose of sending junkmail?
>> >
>> >/s Murphy A. Sewall <[log in to unmask]
>> >   Professor of Marketing                          (203) 486-5246 fax
>>
>>
>> from searching on rs.internic.net, it appears they are hooked up
>> through PSI.NET
>> This raises an interesting question...can a provider refuse to connect a
>> domain because it thinks the domain will be misused?  Is it illegal?
>> Against internet protocol?
>>
>> -Nate
>>
>   I don't believe that refusal on the grounds that they might commit
>   a crime will work, because the restriction would never survive the
>   simplest show cause which guarantees that current guilt not prior
>   guilt must be proven in order to restrict freedom in this case
>   freedom of speech. It would be the same as charging or treating
>   someone like a criminal because you thought that they would commit
>   a crime. Such cases reverse against those limiting freedom in
>   charges of persecution where show cause inevitably means that the
>   mailer would win since you cannot presume guilt based upon prior
>   behaviour. Most of these people seem to be lawyers or well supplied
>   with lawyers so it is not worth the trouble of challenging
>   fundamental freedoms and tenets of law.
>
>   -Paul
>
>--
>
>Dr. Paul S. di Virgilio,  University of Toronto  [log in to unmask]
 
yes, but PSI.NET is not a part of the government, and as such
has no real obligation to give service to any particular person,
or even provide service at all, unless the way in which it denies
service violates some discrimination statute.  I guess this is
getting pretty far afield from the original topic, but my question
basically was directed at whether or not "we believe you will
violate the acceptable use regulation" is a jsutifiable basis for
not providing someone service.  If so, I'd think any internet
provider who has read Canter and Siegel's articles, and cares
about the net, would deny them service.
 
OK, enough of this tangent :-)
-Nate