I am feeling off-topic today... please forgive me. >On the other hand, you're doing the Internet a disservice by supporting >the business of a known spammer. Heck, if we want to be picky, you're >providing "spam support services" by purchasing registration from Enom, >and could arguably be subject to penalty by MAPS. (Hmm.) > >But seriously, if the BIG companies (Verislime, UUNET) won't crack down >on spam, and the SMALL companies (sitelance.com) are too swayed by a $2 >savings to do what's "right", then perhaps it's time I got out of this >business and started breeding chickens. > If we are at it, TwoChicken.com is selling eggs for $0.15. You can get that for $0.11 at eggister.com - if you don't mind mistakenly breeding alligators.
>The Internet was created because >if the cooperation of collection of like-minded individuals. Spam came >came about because a smaller group of greedy individuals figured it was >alright to steal Internet service and force other people to pay for >their advertising (otherwise known as "theft" and "fraud"). Spam >continues to exist because companies like Verisign, UUNET and SiteLance >feel that it's okay to let people devalue this medium as long as you can >pay less. > I think SPAM exists because those who make the laws don't know s**t about the Internet, computers (or anything beyond who the current president of the USA is). You just cannot say "it's not ethical". It is not ethical (or right?) for someone to login to your server and rm-rf /home, yet you do not post your root password on your homepage. If it can be done, and one can get away with it, it will be done again and again. This is like... taxation :-) NOONE is ever 100% loyal to the IRS [corrsing my fingers there...] Are you? ;-) >It's like environmentalism. Paper made from 100% recycled fibres is >more expensive than paper made from virgin forest. But which one should >you be using? Which one ARE you using? And why? > > Theres 100000000% tax on tobacco. Why can't they tax _paper_? We are exchanging electronic documents, then _print_ it. I think one should get tax reduction on not using paper at all... Okay I stop. This is really not for this list. I am getting to Saturdayish. - Cs. ps: FYI, we are staying OpenSRS resellers regardless of the price. A small company cannot win the price war. We just inserted a $your_current_register variable into our API to... well, make sure. It is a constant anyway :-))
