On 2003.06.15 21:47 Dustin Puryear wrote: > I am having difficulty understanding a lot of your logic. How will > restricting a consumer account to only being able to relay mail through an > ISP mail server make spamming easier for real spammers?
The same way having only 4 broadcast stations made life easier for advertisers. In the end, only "special" people will be allowed to "broadcast" on the internet. Those special people will be the same spammers that fill cable TV, the public airwaves and your physical mailbox with adverts. The other kind of spammer, who's only interested in denying service, will find the smaller number of servers easier to disable. > > How does using DHCP and a mail relay force you to setup your system like a > "dead M$ client" system? It makes the dozens of free software mail and web servers I could use worthless to me. That and having to use DHCP and all sorts of M$ developed crap is aggravating. Aside from not seeing as many crashes, having compilers, better local networking, better word processors, ... , I feel better thinking of those differences. The problem comes with not being able to interface with the outside world in the way the people who designed the internet intended. I don't like living with those limitations because most people use M$ and don't know the difference any more than I'd like living without virtual desktops or any of the other advantages of free software for the same reason. > > >If we don't do anything about it, we will all end up in AOL/M$N > >hell. Anyone working on wireless mesh nets? > > At least you aren't overreacting.. :) > Say it ain't so or help me figure out how to get around it. There are all sorts of good projects out there on every kind of EM.
