On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:55:36 -0400 (EDT), jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
Trouble is, how do you stop this?
You use the same principles that are successfully applied every in society (except the Internet) to prevent the negligent from injuring the public. <http://www.camblab.com/misc/univ_std.txt> and (if you have a moment for some chuckles as well as some deep insights into what ails our favorite organism) <http://www.camblab.com/nugget/spam_03.pdf> (Brief extract: "One needs only to enforce existing contracts and management charters (e.g. ICANN's) and to apply the basic principles of civilization to the Internet. No one would fly an airline run like today's Internet. Why should we tolerate such misoperation of an ever more critical resource in modern life? Spam is not inevitable. It is the predictable consequence of management decisions to use the Environmental Polluter business model . . . .) It's not a technical problem and there are NO technical solutions. The only one that works is what is used in every other type of human activity. Jeffrey Race