Tony writes: > Not if it simultaneously wants protection from > liability for any content that the customer might > be sending. Now that I can fully agree with, although it's not an engineering issue. ISPs that simultaneously want common-carrier protection from liability AND the ability to finely dictate what types of traffic they will accept need to choose one or the other. Either you screen and restrict the traffic on your network, but you take full responsibility for whatever is passing over it, or you just provide raw bandwidth and you are shielded from any claims of impropriety in the use thereof. You can't have it both ways, as companies like Prodigy have discovered.