Don,

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:58:59 -0700 (PDT), Don Taylor wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Howard Winter wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:10:52 -0700 (PDT), Don Taylor wrote:
> >> Whatever happened to "Internet 2"?  I haven't heard about that in 
> >> years. That was supposed to be incompatible and separate.
> >
> > Or, indeed, IP v6, which has been fumbling around for ages, and still 
> > isn't widely used.  With more addresses than there are molecules in the 
> > Universe (or whatever the statistic is) that would certainly cut down on 
> > port scans!
> 
> Or Microsoft rattling their sabre about how they want everyone to make 
> this change and that change, defined by Microsoft, to stop spam, all the 
> while having recently become one of the biggest delivery pipelines for 
> Nigeria fraud spam AND added anti-spam filters to all their abuse 
> addresses so they bounce any complaints sent to them about this.

Not being of the Microsoft persuasion (I'm using OS/2 here) I haven't seen any of the above.  I think the 
phrase "blissful ignorance" applies!  :-)  So howcome they allow the spam to flow through, but block it 
arriving?  (Rhetorical question I suppose!)
 
> I realize it has been said before, but a nickel a message for every 
> message put onto the backbone of the net would bring all this junk to a 
> halt.  If it isn't worth a nickel then just don't send it in the first 
> place.  And I think most people would think it would be worth that to make 
> the junk stop.

Better still, the nickel (2.83p Sterling, I think) should be go to the recipient, so whenever you send an 
email, you're paying the other person a small amount to read it (or to delete it without doing so).  Yes, that 
would work!  :-)  I would have made a couple of quid today, already.

Now, who is it that's in charge of the Internet?

Mind you, James would probably get a bit upset at receiving $0.05 and having to pay $100 for every message 
posted here...

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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