Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

Dassa wrote:
> 
> |>-----Original Message-----
> |>From: owner-wg-review@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-review@dnso.org]On
> |>Behalf Of Bret Busby
> |>Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:12 PM
> |>To: Robin Miller
> |>Cc: Sandy Harris; wg-review@dnso.org
> |>Subject: Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re:
> |>The owners
> |>of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit
> |>To me, the simple solution, for spammers, is to get an anonymous
> third
> |>party, who likes doing it, to launch DoS attacks against spam
> servers.
> |>Unless a person actively supports spam, I can't really see
> |>much sympathy for spam servers that suffer DoS.
> |>
> |>And, no, I don't know how to do it, or, anyone that does,
> |>and, I do not support DoS attacks against servers run in good faith.
> |>
> |>It is more an issue of self-defence.
> 
> This is the attitude that is giving spam fighters a bad name.  Two
> wrongs do not make a right.  There are methods available to deal with
> the spam issue legitimately.  Such fanactical statements only inflame
> the situation and cause more problems.
> 
> If there was a concentrated effort to have all ISP's have a standard
> code of practice and making sure they enforced it, the issue would be
> resolved a lot quicker.
> 

If more than the two states of the USA, in other words, if all countries
connected to the Internet, had legislation that outlawed spam, and,
treated it as the serious crimes that it involves - theft, unauthorised
use of computers (which is a serious criminal offence in Australia, iff
it applies to federal governemnt computers), etc, then such actions
would be inappropriate.

However, in the absence of law and order, people can do whatever they
need, to protect themselves.

When those in control do not want to provide law and order, then,
lawlessness prevails, and, anything to protect a party's interest, is
reasonable, as long as it is not to the detriment of the innocent.

-- 

Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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