On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:52:11 -0500 (EST)
Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> And for all the other non-Web protocols which get confused, can treat
> that artificially generated crap/answers like NXDOMAIN. Yes, I know
> it sounds like the evil bit; but if these folks are so convinced
> people really want this crap/address correction...
>
They're not convinced their customers want it; they simply say that
publicly. They're convinced that (a) they're going to make money from
it from equally sleazy advertisers/marketdroids, and (b) their
customers will be either too clueless or too sheeplike to do anything.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
