wow.
On 9/20/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
> If those filters and port blocks did anything to block spam, I'd believe you.
> I can tell you that AOL and Hotmails spam filters are largely ineffective
> because my wife uses one and my mom used to use the other until it became
> unbearable. You and I both know that the vast majority of spam now comes
> from botnets of home PCs on broadband connections and we also know that spam
> outnumbers legitmate email even after filters.
>
> The real answer to the botnet problem is OS diversification. At least one in
> four computers is part of a botnet. If ISPs really cared, they would not
> still be promoting the monoculture.
>
> Net neutrality is ultimately an issue of political control. The ability to
> filter the internet is the ability to filter opinion and it will be used that
> way. That's not the way the internet is supposed to work and technically
> the filters are bottlenecks that throttle performance. The example blocking
> is more than Hotmail and AOL. It's all of the domains controlled by
> Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo and it reeks of government induced collusion. If
> you want to know what a corporate controlled, government censored internet
> will look like, turn on your TV. A free internet is cutting into that
> censorship and control and that's the reason the FCC came out against network
> neutrality.
>
> TruthOut recommends dumping "free" email, but that won't get solve their
> problem. If AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo all decide to filter TruthOut, they
> will do it at all levels and it will work here just as well as it does in
> China.
>
> On Thursday 20 September 2007 8:14 am, Tim Fournet wrote:
> > Also, SMTP servers blocking incoming mail from misconfigured servers,
> > and ISPs blocking incoming TCP/25 connections to home IP ranges have
> > nothing to do with each other, except for being two separate measures of
> > blocking SPAM.
>
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