At 03:07 PM 8/17/2002 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:

On 17 Aug 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:

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I want to know what the homeland security department is likely to do about all this, not what is good/bad for the citizens of hostile nations or even nonhostile nations.

Likely nothing, unless they are complete incompetents. The point is: there's no feasible way to achieve any gains by restricting access on per-country basis.

I doubt they are complete incompetents, but they are politicians. Sometimes people who are interested in a sound-bite or press-release do things which look, at least in retrospect, as stupid so they can garner some instant public reaction. IOW: They may know it will not do any good, but they may do it any way for a front-page headline. Or at least to look like they are doing something. At least that is my fear. -- TTFN, patrick