On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:14:20AM -0800, Roger Morella enlightened us thusly > > >>On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:44:20AM -0800, Roger Morella enlightened > >>us thusly > >> > >> Unfortunately, as frightening as it sounds, what our current email > >> system lacks is a layer of bureaucracy to protect it from abuse. Oh > >> well... welcome to the real world. > > > Declan Moriarty responded as such: Look Roger, > > > Asking netizens to support beaurocracratic interference is less > > likely to succeed than asking turkeys to vote for Christmas & > > Thanksgiving, > or > > asking demons to vote for Armageddon. > > > The facts are, that whatever the system, people will crack it. Real > > concerted attempts were made to prevent breach of copyright in the > music > > world, with only minor and limited success. And that had the > worldwide > > support that your suggestions don't yet have. > > > Whether it would be a better system is anyone's guess. Whether a > > beaurocracy is capable of running anything to everyone's > > satisfacytion yet remains to be proved. But I see little point in > > debating this, as > it > > will never happen. > > In any case, I agree that this isn't the proper forum for debating the > issue. I would like to move this thread to a more applicable news > group, rather than continue to "politically spam" this one ;) Any > suggestions for where I can find a news group where people debate > politically sensitive technical issues?
People generally don't calmly debate these things but flare up into massive flame wars ;-). That said, you want to search out software development types or sysadmins who are face to face with the smtp protocol, or the implementation of standards. The major smtp servers are sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, & mebbe one or two others. My isp uses Intermail. They are useful words for searching. You can find the individual sites in most cases as http://www.program-name.org, or on http://www.sourceforge.net You may even try a mail to the qmail author, but your answer would probably be brusque, irritated and totally complicated. I know of nobody who displays a more in depth knowledge of the tcp/ip protocol. I'm sure they exist - I just don't know them. A pity he's such an (expletive deleted). http://cr.yp.to BTW a health warning: He's start raving bonkers! -- With best Regards, Declan Moriarty. -- Author: Declan Moriarty INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
