On Tuesday 03 February 2004 21:29, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I hate blacklists, because they hit the same way the innocent and the guilty; and there are more innocents than guilty. That's like gassing a entire building because there is a killer living in one of the flats. I know, I'm exaggerating: Well, your not exagerating by much.
but I don't think any court on any country (or any democratic one) would impose that kind of punishment on everybody on a range just because somebody that happened to use an IP on that range for illegal uses. Sometimes those ISP's don't even have a postmaster setup, nor even a person to watch the services.
Rather, the solution would be to force providers to take real action against those people. At least on my country (Spain), I know providers have long listings correlating the IP at a certain time with the phone number used for the connection (I have seen them): therefore the culprit can be catched if there is the serious intention to do so.
I heard the the EEC politicians are talking of taking action against spammers. Lets us hope they do it right.
And therein lies the problem. I seriously doubt they'll do it right. To take the political side of it, 90% of all spams are coming from ... you-know-where. But it's our dear John, these open source guys who are spread all over Europe who are attacking SCO (bingo). These EEC politicians don't have a clue about IT, and they are generally working out of preassure from you-know-where and not in the interest of their citizens. If it isn't the preassure that is dictating their ways, it's the dream of become an even bigger corporation than you-know-who. Both of which, do not take the general citizen into count. We'll always end up with the short end of the stick, as most of us aren't smart enough to see it coming and the rest of us are totally powerless to do anything about it.