On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, willhill wrote: > The US could eliminate 80% of the world's spam by outlawing Windows.
Why don't we just outlaw spam? Cause that's gonna work. > Freedom is not the root of the spam problem and blocking port 25 has not > solved it. There is a technical solution and this list exists to promote it. Now you're talking, but what is the technical solution? Fix the windows machines? Replace the windows monoculture with a linux monoculture? These solutions cost billions. What if DirecTV called me and said they were turning off my service cause i accidentally changed to channel 25 one day. I shouldn't have done that, and now i'm causing problems on the network. They'll turn my service back on if i pay $200+ to repair my receiver or take it to BestBuy to get it repaired. I'd kindly tell them to piss off. Then i'd call DishNetwork or Charter (yes, i have that choice). No ISP is going to do that to their customers. The ISP's aren't going to band together to get rid of Windows on their networks. There are laws against that (collusion and racketeering). > commercial interests and then we'd all have fewer choices. Choices come with > freedom and freedom is a principle not something that can be made into a > grocery list. I'm paying for my bandwith and should be allowed to use it. True freedom is anarchy and probably not what you want. Choices come with freedom and freedom comes with sacrifices. I'm willing to sacrifice my port 25 freedom for the greater good. I'm also willing to stop at stop signs and pay taxes, though i'd much rather run them all while shooting the bird at the IRS. I'm not willing to give up my freedom of speech, or right to bear arms. You draw a line in the sand and decide how much freedom you're willing to give up. Obviously Will draws his line a little farther back than mine. But ya know, that's fine with me. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
