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The Case for Rebuilding The Internet From Scratch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the armchair-quarterback-pipedream dept.

dotnothing writes "I just caught a column on a security site advocating for a total start from scratch as far as certain internet protocols like SMTP. It's an interesting idea and there are some ideas on how to conduct the transition... if everyone would agree on something like this it would definitely reduce the spam (among other things)."

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  1. my picks by Lord+Ender · · Score: 5, Funny

    IPv6, replacement for SMTP, Slashdot style moderation on USENET, default encryption on all data transfers, DHCP configures EVERYTHING (like mail server, news server, etc), and more naked women. That would be perfect.

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  2. The question is... by da3dAlus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will they make use of the new 'Evil' IP bit?

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  3. Make it worth my while. by Murdock037 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Alright, we can do this, but this time around I've got dibs on "business.com."

    1. Re:Make it worth my while. by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why take business.com when you can grab slashdot.org and link it to msn.com for a few days? Watch the hilarity ensue as geeks around the world suicidely jump out of office buildings thinking that the Devil won't stop messing with their heads.

  4. Can We At Least Agree... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    not to tell AOL? Lets just not mention anything to them, and suddently we have two seperate networks...

    The old network only consisting of AOlers.
    The new network consisting of everyone else.

    If this isn't acceptable, could we try just not telling Microsoft?

  5. 100 per second? by Niles_Stonne · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If you limited normal users to 100 messages per second and major companies to 10,000 messages a second it would be hard for legitimate users to complain, but spamming would be much harder."

    Hm... At a limit of 100 per second that only means I can send out 100x60x60x24 = 8,640,000 e-mails per day. How am I going to be able to talk to all of my friends now?

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  6. Re:It's simple! by Dthoma · · Score: 5, Funny

    ./confugure: No such file or directory

    I don't think the problem is with your system. :-)

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  7. Re:How History will see it by Snork+Asaurus · · Score: 4, Funny
    And so the story ends, with a new beginning

    Yet rejoice ye not, rather saddend be

    for 'tis Windows running, on every damned PC

    It seems that while the web was down

    MS finished buying off Washing-town.

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  8. Re:HAHA... by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yet, studies show that the buses in mexico are several fold more effecient

    Have you ever seen a mexican bus?

    They have 2x the internal capacity filled up AND people hanging off the sides! All the while running at about 1/5 the spped of light on narrow winding mountain roads...

    Its efficient? Its also the scariest thing ever!

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