[MPlayer-dev-eng] to michael

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:34:16PM -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 12:19 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:02:53PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann'
> > Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > I'm not discriminating. It is up to me to decide who I let into my house,
> > > isn't it? Or are you claiming to have the right to enter my house any time
> > > you like over my objections?
> > 
> > No, we claim the right to email people receiving internet connectivity
> > from your business, people who want to receive our emails.
> 
> Throughout this discussion, Dominik has been arguing from his
> perspective as an end user who decides what mail to let into his
> mailbox, while you have been arguing from the perspective of a business
> who is setting policy on the mailboxes of its users.

My understanding is that Dominik believes a business has the authority
to set policy for its users, and that the users implicitly consent to
this either by being unwilling to switch to a different ISP (even
though they rarely have a choice) or because they don't even
understand the issues involved...

Rich