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Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace () attglobal net>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:00:54 +0700
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:55:36 -0400 (EDT), jlewis () lewis org wrote:
Trouble is, how do you stop this?
You use the same principles that are successfully applied every in society (except the Internet) to prevent the negligent from injuring the public. <http://www.camblab.com/misc/univ_std.txt> and (if you have a moment for some chuckles as well as some deep insights into what ails our favorite organism) <http://www.camblab.com/nugget/spam_03.pdf> (Brief extract: "One needs only to enforce existing contracts and management charters (e.g. ICANN's) and to apply the basic principles of civilization to the Internet. No one would fly an airline run like today's Internet. Why should we tolerate such misoperation of an ever more critical resource in modern life? Spam is not inevitable. It is the predictable consequence of management decisions to use the Environmental Polluter business model . . . .) It's not a technical problem and there are NO technical solutions. The only one that works is what is used in every other type of human activity. Jeffrey Race
Current thread:
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Mike Tancsa (Oct 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Dr. Jeffrey Race (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Susan Harris (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Margie Arbon (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Avleen Vig (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Petri Helenius (Oct 10)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned Jeff Kell (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Susan Harris (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Sean Donelan (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Damian Gerow (Oct 09)
- Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes Lou Katz (Oct 09)