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RE: "Make love, not spam"....

  • From: Hannigan, Martin
  • Date: Mon Nov 29 14:40:45 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Hannigan, Martin
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:16 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:45 PM
> > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >  > -----Original Message-----
> > >>  From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> > >>  Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:54 AM
> > >>  To: nanog@merit.edu
> > >>  Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >[ SNIP ]
> > >
> > >>
> > >>  The big difference between Lycos Europe, and a script 
> kiddie with
> > >>  zombies is that Lycos is mature enough to use restraint 
> > and not knock
> > >>  down websites with brute force.  They're attempting to use the
> > >>  politically correct "grown up" way to attack someone:  
> economics.
> > >
> > >I didn't know there was a politically correct way to create a
> > >BotMonster and rule the Internet by emminent domain.
> > >
> > >-M<
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah, that's exactly what they're doing!  It's a plot to TAKE OVER 
> > THE WORLD.  You figured it out!
> > 
> > It's about giving the spammers what they want:  More 
> traffic to their 
> > websites.  How can it be wrong when they send out 1 million emails 
> > that all say "click on this link" and 1 million computers actually 
> > click the link?  Who's in the wrong there?
> > 
> > Besides: "rule the Internet by emminent domain."  Isn't' that 
> > Verisign's job?
> 
> 
> 
> For all who are interested, the controller appears to live at
> 230.136.241.83

That would be the in-addr folks. 83.241.136.230

-M< 




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