
Re:seems fair 

    Seems like a reasonable compromise to help eliminate spam. If you are sending out more than that, you probably 
should pay for a commercial account of some kind, or a mailing service. 

I smell a troll here, but I'll bite anyway.

"Reasonable?" I guess you don't run any mailing lists. I'm the webmaster for the local homebrew club [alfter.us]. Some 
of our members opt to not have dead-tree newsletters mailed to them; instead, they receive notification in the mail 
that this month's newsletter is up on the website. I use a throwaway shell script and Mutt [mutt.org] to send notices 
to the 30 members on the list. If Cox were to impose such a limit, I would end up hitting it once a month.

(FWIW, my "home" cable-modem service is actually business-grade (grandfathered from before they started using DOCSIS 
for residential service) and I run my own mail server on it. Nevertheless, there are plenty of other legitimate reasons 
why somebody might fire off a smallish quantity of messages...for instance, somebody might send a change of address to 
everyone in his address book.) 
