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Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2001-03-15

Verio cuts off EFF co-founder John Gilmore over open mail server.

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Spam, or not... 2001-03-15
dirge (2 replies)
Spam, or not... 2001-03-16
Kidd Kasper
Spam, or not... 2001-03-16
Someone Who Writes Mail Servers For A Living
How hard IS THIS REALLY? 2001-03-16
xrayspx
Wake up 2001-03-16
Al Huger (1 replies)
Wake up 2001-03-20
Rob Hughes
ISP's should be emulating the telcos that came before them. 2001-03-16
someone247356_AT_yahoo.com (2 replies)
Re: ISP's should be emulating the telcos that came before them. 2001-03-17
op
ISP's should be emulating the telcos that came before them. 2001-03-17
NoSpammer (1 replies)
ISP's should be emulating the telcos that came before them. 2001-03-19
someone247356_AT_yahoo.com (2 replies)
ISP's should be emulating the telcos that came before them. 2001-03-19
Alun Jones
ISP's should be emulating the telcos that came before them. 2001-03-19
someonesomewhere
Spam 2001-03-16
Concerned Patron
Users are the problem, so are software designers that don't understand that 2001-03-16
Tirade
People who don't want spam should filter it out themselves 2001-03-16
slymir (2 replies)
People who don't want spam should filter it out themselves 2001-03-18
Bungie
People who don't want spam should filter it out themselves 2001-03-19
Alun Jones
John has a good point: 2001-03-16
A non-delusional Spam-hater (3 replies)
John has a good point: 2001-03-17
Steve Cohen
John has a good point: 2001-03-18
Stephen J. Friedl
John has a good point: 2001-03-19
Alun Jones
ISPs are doing what the majority want 2001-03-16
someonesomewhere (1 replies)
RE:ISPs are doing what the majority want 2001-03-19
someone247356_AT_yahoo.com (2 replies)
RE:ISPs are doing what the majority want 2001-03-19
someonesomewhere
RE:ISPs are doing what the majority want 2001-03-19
Alun Jones
Search for a better solition 2001-03-17
Gerrie (1 replies)
Spam can never be stopped by filtering a connection.

Each day thousands of new Linux or other OSes with mail send and receive capabilities are installed, if ISP's have to filter each of those connections, they would have a full time job doing this.

The question what is next?

Is the BSA asks ISP's to filter out FTP services which have copyrighted material on them, are they going to filter FTP servers?

And after that, they would going to filter HTTP servers, because there have some information on them where someone is complaining about.

And after that they are going to filter messenger software because someone is spamming using those kind of application.

Well isn't better to filter al possible connections, and let the ISP decide which kind of communication is suitable for you, they would moderated each tcp/ip packet that comes to your servers & clients.

Well it would create allot of new jobs, so it must be a good idea ;-)

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Search for a better solition 2001-03-19
Alun Jones
open relay irresponsible 2001-03-18
bob niederman
Spam is wrong & open relays don't help BUT...! 2001-03-19
0160 Founder of The Foundation for Peace and Opportunity Seekers since 1987 & Admin of Small ISP in California USA (2 replies)
Spam is wrong & open relays don't help BUT...! 2001-03-19
someonesomewhere
Spam is wrong & open relays don't help BUT...! 2001-03-19
Alun Jones
Foolish thing for an ISP to do 2001-03-20
Net Citizen (1 replies)
Foolish thing for an ISP to do 2001-03-22
Alun Jones <alun (at) texis (dot) com [email concealed]>
Good! Yet another open relay closed! 2001-03-21
Jeroen Wijnands
What the heck does rights and freedoms have to do with this? 2001-03-21
someonesomewhere







 

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