On Mon, 8 May 2000, James Tyson wrote:
I believe, and this is IMHO ofcourse, that Alan et al have gone about this issue the wrong way. We all know that something needs to be done about this, but we don't all agree with how it should be implemented.
Also IMHO: Vigilante-style action to "solve" the problem of spam relaying antagonises people, does damage to the industry's credibility as a whole, and goes against the spirit of what the 'net is about (much like spam itself, really). Just like distributed DOS attacks, we can rely on people to find new ways of abusing a "public" resource, whether through spamming or otherwise. Part of the problem is having legalling enforcable acceptable use policies; another part is using technology to block the worst of it... I think ORBS throws the baby, the bathwater, and a good deal of the plumbing and fixtures out the window. I think it takes the technical component of the "spam solution" too far. People being people are disclined to be helpful, whether your cause is "justified" or not, if you go to great pains to piss them off. -- Josh Bailey (joshbailey(a)lucent.com) --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog