Re: [Asrg] Point of information...

At 05:51 PM 6/20/2003 -0400, Barry Shein wrote:

>On June 20, 2003 at 11:20 research@solidmatrix.com (Yakov Shafranovich) wrote:
>  > >Now that viruses have emerged (Jeem, Proxy-Guzu, sobig.a) which can
>  > >make a computer (or, more to the point, millions of computers) an
>  > >unwitting weapon against the entire net this problem has to be taken
>  > >more seriously by Microsoft.
>  >
>  > Are any of these problems solvable by technical means? Going over and 
> over
>  > the illegality of spam does not help things, our group cannot make any
>  > legal impact anyway - we are working on technical solutions.
>
>Yes, replacing all MS windows operating systems on all computers
>attached to the net with either Unix or a modern unix-like operating
>system (Linux, Mac OSX) would eliminate about 99% of the spam and put
>virtually all spammers out of business instantly.
>
>That's not entirely practical, but it is technical and it would
>address the problem I am describing and responds to your
>concerns. Other technical approaches are possible. No, we're not
>finished, sorry...maybe Ritalin would help you.
>
>After nearly ten years of grappling with this for you to demand an
>instant problem definition and solution (or cease discussion) in one
>fell swoop seems almost willfully obstructionist.

Barry,

I am not demanding a definition or a solution. I would like to help to 
solve the problem just like everyone else. I do not think that anyone in 
here means bad, everyone means well. What I would like to see is more 
discussion of this topic from everyone including urself. Simply stating the 
facts and demanding a legal solutions does not help. I would like to see a 
technical discussion surrounding this approach and possible solutions.

Yakov  

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