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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. fp! yeah baby! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    w00t fp you all eat it!
    Loves ya!

  2. Sure it'll help fight spam... by krin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...but will it help get rid of idiots like the parent post here?

    --
    There is no spork.
    1. Re:Sure it'll help fight spam... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The same people who will shove that non-existant spork straight up your ass!

      Of course, they'll do it in the name of Freedom, so it should probably be called freedom sp0rk(TM)

      JAAC.

  3. Re:Now this would really be science fiction.... by Blaine+Hilton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That was the weirdest thing. I thought I posting about a science fiction museum. It said it at the top and when I hit submit I see "The Case for Rebuilding The Internet From Scratch", is this a /. bug?

  4. Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Billy G, pathice et cinaede, Microsoft, qui me ex software meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. Nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est; qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem, si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici, et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos. Vos, quod milia multa basiorum legistis, male me marem putatis? Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.

  5. Re:OK Then. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You idiot this is The Giver. What you linked to is the Receiver. Dumbass.

  6. Ok, but I have dibs on... by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...http://goatse.cx!

  7. PARENT CONTAINS GOATSE CX LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..and it's damned obvious this is a job for .

  8. I agree! by Billy+the+Mountain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Count me in!
    Here's the first line:

    while (1==1) {

    BTM

    --
    That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.