Klarinet Archive - Posting 000080.txt from 2006/02

From: o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Choke point?
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:49:59 -0500

Mark, it's unlikely that the Postal Service could stop me from putting
an envelope into the mail system because there are too many mailboxes
(in the nation) to patrol. But the postal system has a 'choke point'
at the receiving end --- namely, the post office where my mail carrier
picks up his/her bag of mail to be delivered each day. Thereby (for
example) the postal service can divert my mail if I ask for a 'vacation
hold'.

Is the Internet a similar situation, wherein _my_ ISP can stop my
incoming deliveries, but there is no 'choke point' which can reasonably
prevent someone else from entering an email into the system so long as
they are willing/able to find/create a mailbox (that is, make a
telephone connection) on their own initiative?

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