[149661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Fri Feb 10 19:13:32 2012
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:12:37 -0500
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120210234630.GA23186@gsp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
There used to be the old programming benchmark of how large a "program"
(in lines, as well as compiled bytes) it took to say "Hello, world."
The 21st century benchmark might now well be the size of a "Hello,
world" e-mail.
Or a web page with a similar statement.
Jeff
On 2/10/2012 6:46 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:37:01AM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>> Remind me again why we live in this sad word Randy (correcly) described?
> Because banks and many other institutions have prioritized all-singing,
> all-dancing, bloated, horribly-badly-marked-up HTML email with
> "stationary" and logos and pictures and web bugs far, FAR ahead of
> security, privacy, accessability, portability and other -ilities that
> I'm too lazy to enumerate just now. Besides: it's not like it's *their*
> accounts that will get hosed or *their* money that will get lost.
> Things like that only happen to the little people.
>
> See also this related note:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/infowarrior%40attrition.org/msg08436.html
>
> ---rsk
>
