On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Ove Kaaven wrote: [...]
Oh, knock it off. If I took my car (if I had one) and drove through a public park, a children's playground, and private property, just because it's a shortcut to the highway, and I was stopped and pointed towards the
I believe your analogy is flawed: if I were going through children playgrounds and private properties with my MTA then in your analogy we would see buses and taxis doing so too. A better analogy might be one where you are forbidden to drive a car because private car owners have accidents. You should take a taxis or the bus.
nearby road, I wouldn't be screaming about restrictions of my freedom. Nor do I, when I see a shop with a surveillance camera, scream about treating every customer as a criminal.
At least they're not preventing you from entering, they're just making a log of who comes in. Just like an ISP makes a log of who send what using their MTA, or could (does?) make a log of the IP addresses with which you exchange packets.
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ "Utilisateur" (nom commun) : Mot utilisé par les informaticiens en lieu et place d'"idiot".