These people are the "digerati", the "elite", the "31337", and so forth. The EFF, Gilmore, Barlow, all play a very important role in protecting our freedoms, and I'm glad they're around. BUT, they're evidently boneheads.

If John Barlow connects to an ISP in Africa to send an email to his girlfriend, he should go to his email client settings, (you KNOW he's using outlook), set the smtp server to mail.whateverthehellISPheson.com and send all the mail he wants. If it's not mail, I'd bet him a Donut that the address is smtp. or out., wouldn't even have to ASK anyone. If this is too highbrow for them, they should get AOL accounts and be done with it. There, BAM, you can send mail from anywhere in the world without having to think.

If I have an open relay so that my 'friends' can connect and send mail from wherever they are likely to be, MAPS, ORBS, my ISP would not be near as lenient. Just because we're talking about a celebrity does not make this any less boneheaded.

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