Re: Don't be silly ...

> That's like saying you need the Post Office to approve your mailing.

What part of "The ISP's rules must be obeyed" don't you understand? Even if you run your own ISP, you have a bandwidth provider and Internet backbone's AUP to deal with. As I've said, you may get away with it and not get complaints, but it's a contract violation if your ISP is like MaaMaw's.

The Post Office is much more like a common carrier than a privately-owned network, so they don't have ANY control over content and they certainly don't post the same kind of AUP.

> ISP's are NOT quite as stupid as you would like it believed.

What's stupid about posting an AUP and enforcing it? I posted MaaMaw's ISP's AUP. Maybe you have a more spam-tolerant one? Lucky guy. Spam away.

> By the way, do you have a "real" name?

You must have missed posts with "Bill" at the bottom. A simple google search on the email address would show a little bit of my history on the net.

> When I was a traveling musician ... back in my youth ... the roadies were
> just hanger-ons we tolerated because they would assist with menial labor.

Not the entire story, but thanks for the slam anyway:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/msg/47d6c6eeee0aa639

For those who don't like to cut and paste links:

Because I've been getting this question a lot, here's the Roadie
Nickname FAQ:

It came from two separate paths, and both were good, so they stuck.

At college (1969-73) I was in the lighting and film projection crew
(before computers, geeks were alvays running the AV equipment. I was
licensed in Massachusetts by the Public Safety Commission to run
carbon arc projectors.). Worked on lights and sound for Harry Chapin on his
first tour in New England, J. Geils Band, Aerosmith and a few others.

Much later, I was the volunteer sound engineer and roadie, for the
world's only Moody Blues cover band, called Odyssey, from Portland,
Oregon. Only together for three years (1996-8), Odyssey had a few
dozen gigs around the northwest, and opened for the Kingsmen once. But
half the band had day jobs, so it was only a few nights a month and
local weekend gigs that everybody could play.

Separately, in my day job, when we were a startup with no money in
1984, we needed three systems to get to a trade show in Washington DC
from Boston in 18 hours, and no air freight connection was affordable
or even available. So I rented a Ryder truck and drove all night to
get them there, after engineering made them work at 9PM, saving the
show and our early reputation.

Now I run customer support for a small high tech company, started by
some friends I've worked with over the last 30 years, and I fly about
100-120K miles a year (3.6 million miles over 32 years), so I'm still
the Roadie.