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echo: ftsc_public
to: Sean Dennis
from: mark lewis
date: 2019-04-21 12:34:00
subject: P4 covers echomail

 On 2019 Apr 21 11:16:56, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

 WD>> Nevertheless the ZCs have always interpreted that formal complaints
 WD>> on echomail-content are 'not' a P4 thing because there are moderators
 WD>> to handle issues. And accepting the presence of moderators, which are
 WD>> not mentioned in P4, opens up a totally different can of worms ...
 WD>> you know what I mean ...

 SD> That is a very good point that I overlooked.  I see where you're
 SD> coming from on that.

have you seen my post to bjorn on this topic? not sure if i just posted it in 
here... he accused me, again, of supporting the view that echomail is not 
covered... he says he has forgotten about my 2015 post to him on the subject so 
i posted it to him again ;)

 SD> I'd dare to venture that from P4's point of view, a policy dispute
 SD> would have been that someone pulling too much bandwidth from an uplink
 SD> to carry what was then an excessive amount of echomail.  I don't think
 SD> that would apply for a majority of users in Z1.

exactly... transport, not content...

 SD> I could see issues in other zones that don't have "unlimited"
 SD> telecommunications access for cheap.

that's why an operator can pick and choose what echos they carry and what they 
allow their users to do ;)

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