Darin, Morality and Ethics are molded by what we can and cannot do or get away with. It's a sad fact of humanity.
There is a reason why fighting back is a popular option. Governments do a very poor job of policing technology. Spammers spam because they get away with it and it is profitable. Email Admins are always in a reactive mode in trying to stem the tide of crap that comes in. We end up spending huge amounts of time and money fending this stuff off and the Spammers are always one step ahead and always will be. No government/company has been able to step up and wipe these people out. We see token lawsuits and token enforcement. It's near enough to anarchy to persuade many to fight back. At this point maybe that is what needs to happen. Make them filter their systems and spend hours maintaining and money on systems to deal with the flow. If it ceases to be so easy and profitable they might give it up. Is it Ethical? Hard to say. If your getting beat-up and there is no policeman around to help, is it Ethical for you to fight back? -Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darin Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites > > Morality is not involved. Our MXs cheeks have been getting slapped silly > > for years. > > Everything we do is defined by our morality/ethics. To do otherwise is to > essentially have no morality/ethics... and they have a word for that: > Sociopath. > > >vigilantism in self-defense makes sense, is defensible in the absence of > >enforced laws. > > Vigilantism is NOT self-defense, and is prosecuted by the law. Revenge > murderers are proesecuted and put away all of the time. Check out the > history of the American West for a colorful depiction of the unlawfullness > of vigilantism. > > Darin. > > > > 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/ > 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/
