On Friday 17 October 2003 12:37 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >The only problem is that a solution to this problem will take >literally *years* of educating Windows users and sysadmins. >This all blew up in just a few days, but will take a very long >time to fix. Unless you go the unpopular route of forcefeeding >things like "trusted computing" and blocking all home users with >a firewall at the ISP and only allow outbound ports 80 and 443. >But that would effectively turn large chunks of the Internet into >passive receptacles for the WWW (which is only a very small part of >the Internet).
I agree 100% But you do have to adapt or be faced with being in the position of a dinosaur standing of the edge of the tar pits. We are not using Arpanet. My personal situation involves an ISP (Earthlink/Sprint) and a personal server with a static IP address. In one week my personal server has gotten hundreds and hundreds of Mb of swen spam, merely because I posted to this list with an address that shouldn't have been used, rather than my public Earthlink address. My error, my fault. I know that there are measures I can take to protect my server that I have not yet taken (I am researching, believe me.) Even so, I don't see the downside in removing my email addresses from the world wide web...which as you say is "only a very small part of the Internet" Regards, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
