Auerbach on Internet Cruft

Captain Beefheart writes "Karl Auerbach has a story on CircleID in which he declares '...Between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, I fear that the open Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected.' The Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us."

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Summary

[aridhol]

The Internet is dying

Right after Usenet, *BSD, Stephen King, etc.

Newsflash - there are lots of idiots in life

[stratjakt]

You either deal with the online idiots, or abandon the internet. The pros of the internet FAR outweigh the cons, IMO.

Frankly I dont see the spams and ddos attacks and blah blah that you all get so worked up over as much of a big deal. I get little spam, on the order of a couple dozen a year. Big ddos attacks on commercial sites have never really bothered me. Whoopty do.

There are jerks at the mall, but its still the best place in town to buy a new pair of pants.

"Elitist jackass thinks we need to abandon internet because he's offended by penis-enlarging spam". Big boo-hoo deal. You run off and start your own internet then. Those of us with balls (or a reasonable equivalent) will stick around here, thanks. Because it really isnt that bad.