19 Feb
2004
19 Feb
'04
4:41 a.m.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:06:05 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
Any real solution is going to have to deal with the fact that properly administered systems are in the distinct minority.
You shut the mal-administered systems of from the internet until they are no lnger a threat to the internet, just as you quarantine ill persons who are dangers to the community. Solving the spam and security problems requires nothing more, and nothing less. The identities of chronically mal-administered systems are well know. There are some practical implementation problems at the margin but for (I am guessing) 95% of the cases, it is trivially easy. Jeffrey Race