GAK-killing amendments?

[Roland Perry]

In article <200007021436.PAA00451@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>, Charles Lindsey
<chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes
>>including the concept that smaller ISPs might "prefer"
>> the boxes to be run by remote control if they didn't want to provide
>> people to run them themselves.

>This is the first 'hard' evidence I have seen that HO were thinking
>along those lines (and they do not seem to be so thinking currently). I
>would hope that any ISP tempted by such blandishments would refuse them
>absolutely. 

The temptation would arise from being a small ISP that didn't want to
have to get one of its two engineers out of bed at 3am on a Bank Holiday
Monday and spend the rest of the day fiddling around configuring the
black box. But maybe such organisations wouldn't expect to have such a
box fitted permanently, following remarks along these lines recently.
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