[Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked
Pierre-Yves Bonnetain
py.bonnetain at ba-cst.com
Mon Dec 6 16:36:19 GMT 2004
Hi,
Bob Smith wrote:
> The Internet has always been about vigilante justice. Aside from
> exceptionally egregious cases of wrongdoing, like sexually explicit
> material with children, fraud, or flagrant piracy, the Internet
> exists and operates beyond the boundaries of any one nation's laws.
> It is up to the people to self regulate.
Self regulate is NOT self retaliate.
> And if the spammers don't like my packets being sent to their
> system, all they have to do is send me a polite e-mail asking to be
> removed from my flood-list. It is really quite simple!
Then, what will you do when (not IF) you'll receive X bazillions (say,
one message per 100 packets send) polite emails requesting you to
remove such-and-such random IP from your flood-list ? Will you really
deal with all of those messages ?
I DO agree that strong measures should be taken against spammers.
Legal ones, that is. No other way to keep a civilized society still
civilized.
My .02 euros.
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Pierre-Yves Bonnetain
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