[conspire] Internet Privacy: today's vote and measures to take

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Josef Grosch (jgrosch at gmail.com):

> I had that conversation with my former ISP. They told me it was their
> policy to redirect port 53 traffic to ensure "top quality of service".
> The first thing I asked my current ISP, Sonic, after how much was their
> service was do they block/redirect port 53 traffic. They thought I was
> nuts to ask, "We don't don't do things like that" was their reply.

It would be very appropriate at that point to call your former ISP and
say you had moved your business to Sonic.net to ensure top quality of
service.  ;->

Or, as Niven & Pournelle put it in _Oath of Fealty_, 'Think of it as
evolution in action.'  (It's likely they picked up the phrase around
CalTech.  http://wiki.c2.com/?EvolutionInAction)