<> Possibly. But only if you actually have common carrier status, or can <> make a credible claim that you should. Have they passed any law grantin <> such status to ISPs? I'd think that would be big news, and I haven't <> heard of it. Common carrier status is often implied as part fo a generic communications service. I had to deal with this 30 years ago with RCC(radio common carrier) otherwise known as UHF repeaters. We were if anything indirectly responseable for FCC language mandates if not by law certainly by possible civil penelty. So if we had a customer that tended to run a little hard with a seven deadly dirty words it was a risk to us as well. So it was a condition of service or else... Allison