>Just logged onto UT and saw the article with same title. A fair question.

Interesting timing. I would have never agreed with this...until last week.

The hosting company I use ran afoul of the 800-lb gorilla (AOL) during the SoBig virus. To make a long story short, AOL blocked all mail eminating from ANYONE at the hosting company. (Yes, I know it's a cheap host, but that's why I use it) And it was not an insignificant number of people who were no longer allowed to communicate with AOL users.

This went on for over a week, with many people who run small businesses on these servers losing income..not to mention being out of touch with family (me) and friends. With the exception of a very few accounts, the vast majority of us had done nothing.

Which - during the course of the heated pleas with the host to DO SOMETHING - raised the question: What if Cleveland (AOL) got mad at Detroit (Cheap Host) because the Motor City had several mass "snail-mailers" that caused their postal workers to complain....and announced they would now leave ALL MAIL FROM DETROIT ON THE TRUCKS?

Now I am beginning to wonder where this will all go. Yes, we need to eliminate spam, but not at the expense of valued communications.