Will, why don't you just come out with it: you think that the use of alternative OS's should be mandated.
BTW it's condemn. On 9/20/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: > > There is no contradiction. Port blocks and filters have not fixed the > spam > problem because freedom is not the root cause of spam, a monoculture of > insecure computers is. > > Bandwith that you pay for but can't use as you please is a waste of the > network you support. I don't want something for nothing, I want the > freedom > to use what I pay for. > > There's nothing paranoid about saying a non free internet will soon look > like > broadcast TV. If I condem Microsoft and Yahoo censorship in China, I'm > going > condem it here where I'm the victim. Calling me "paranoid" and "wild" > won't > change my mind about these things. > > On Thursday 20 September 2007 10:39 am, Tim Fournet wrote: > > Wait a minute. At one point you say that blocking outbound SMTP > > connections from home PCs does nothing to block SPAM, and then you say > > that the majority of SPAM comes from home PCs on broadband connections > > that are part of botnets (which use SMTP to send spam). Which is it? > > > > As for the rest of your spiel, it really doesn't make sense. The > > internet isn't free, it costs money to run all those lines, keep those > > servers running and cool, etc. Anyone who provides a service of hosting > > email accounts for someone is doing it with the expectation of providing > > some value to its users in return for some value to themselves. In the > > case of Yahoo, MSN, etc, it's mostly about offering a free, reliable, > > reasonably-spam-free, email account in return for brand loyalty and > > maybe some advertising revenue. If users don't like it, there is nothing > > at all stopping them from going to a domain registrar, registering their > > own domain, and then going to an ISP and buying an account that allows > > inbound SMTP; or going to a hosting provider and provisioning their own > > mail server, or paying someone else to do above for them. If you think > > there is censorship or collusion going on, you're wildly mistaken, and > > perhaps excessively paranoid. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070920/80960458/attachment.html
