In <[email protected]>, on 07/23/2012
at 07:32 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> said:
>The government ARPA-net became the Internet we know today because
>Al Gore recognized its potential and pushed legislation, first in
>1988 to help link universities and libraries, and additional
>legislation in 1992 which opened it to commercial traffic.
In an anarchic fashion that opened us up to all sorts of network
abuse.
>Probably someone else would have eventually done so if he hadn't,
>but maybe not for another decade or more;
And maybe without the epidemics of, e.g., spam, virus attacks, DOS
attacks.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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