[75998] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: "Make love, not spam"....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Nov 29 14:39:10 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:37:39 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Hannigan, Martin
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:16 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:45 PM
> > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....
> >
> >
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> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> > >> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:54 AM
> > >> To: nanog@merit.edu
> > >> Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >[ SNIP ]
> > >
> > >>
> > >> The big difference between Lycos Europe, and a script
> kiddie with
> > >> zombies is that Lycos is mature enough to use restraint
> > and not knock
> > >> down websites with brute force. They're attempting to use the
> > >> politically correct "grown up" way to attack someone:
> economics.
> > >
> > >I didn't know there was a politically correct way to create a
> > >BotMonster and rule the Internet by emminent domain.
> > >
> > >-M<
> >
> >
> > Yeah, that's exactly what they're doing! It's a plot to TAKE OVER
> > THE WORLD. You figured it out!
> >
> > It's about giving the spammers what they want: More
> traffic to their
> > websites. How can it be wrong when they send out 1 million emails
> > that all say "click on this link" and 1 million computers actually
> > click the link? Who's in the wrong there?
> >
> > Besides: "rule the Internet by emminent domain." Isn't' that
> > Verisign's job?
>
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> For all who are interested, the controller appears to live at
> 230.136.241.83
That would be the in-addr folks. 83.241.136.230
-M<