RE: Tired of Waiting

["Robert Raisch" <raisch@internautics.com>]

Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> Becasue of the legal morass regarding
> "Common Carrier" in the US (subject to individual State regulations, etc),
> we really don't want to go there either.

I concede "common carrier" was a poor choice.  My comments regarding common
carriage were meant as a illustrative abstraction, not a legal definition.
Based upon recent law, AOL enjoys a status similar to that of a common
carrier, since it is legally protected from the data flowing through it.
This is the characteristic I tried to invoke.
--
Rob Raisch, Online Technology Evangelist <http://www.raisch.com/>

"A work of art should also be `an object difficult to pick up.'
It should be made of such a shape that people don't know which way
to hold it.  It should hide its riches, to reveal them little by
little over a long period of time...the slower it opens its petals,
the later it will fade."  - Jean Cocteau (paraphrased)