Pete, Count me in when we have a pitbull that can get after the spammers. I'm also with you about the "big business and government" aspect. If we can come up with a solution ourselves I'm all for it. The big guys are too much in favor of opening the goose to find out where the golden eggs come from
David Shows (spideyman) President, ZZip Internet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Madscientist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] New spam techniques to be successful? > At 08:34 AM 6/22/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > I agree with Mike, and am somewhat gloomy on ever legally shutting down > >spammers. > > > > We may accomplish this in the U.S., but offshore beckons and they will set > >up there. > > > > We face what the military calls "bullets vs armor". In this game usually > >bullets win. I think we will be battling them forever, them killing our cpu > >cycles grinding on useless electronic garbage. I think as a whole we have > >to come up with some form of "aggressive armor" that identifies spammers > >and makes it costly for them to continue. > > > > We can't take them out but we can make it painful. > > I think this view misses a critical point. In a "bullets vs armor" the > laws of physics are constant. It is a siege. That is why bullets usually win. > > The Internet, in contrast, is an entirely artificial environment where we > can essentially "change the laws of physics". With a few well placed > adjustments we can leverage the computing power of the Internet against > it's abuse and make it extremely difficult for spammers to exist. > > It's not a trivial task, but it is possible, and as the threat posed by > spammers and other malware generators is perceived more strongly - so will > the need for change be felt until the adjustments needed are performed. > > The race is really against time and politics. Can we "fix" the Internet > before it is destroyed by regulation and biases imposed by "big business"? > I hope so. > > _M > > Pete McNeil (Madscientist) > President, MicroNeil Research Corporation > Chief SortMonster, www.SortMonster.com > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 6/18/2003 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
