The scientific community made early and significant use of the DARPA predecessor of today's Internet, and almost none of the problems that afflict us today emerged during that period. There was no money to be made by chicanery, and little of it therefore occurred.
Things are now very different. The availability of millions of new Internet dupes has spawned whole new classes of crime and greatly facilitated others that are much older than it is. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
