I know it chews CPU time when a spammer blasts you, but that happens with all services connected to the Internet. Changing a protocol is only going to cause incompatability issues.
I was with hotmail before Microsoft came in. It's the only free provider I ever used, now I only use email from my own domains so that I am never locked into a provider.
My domain danscomp.net as you can see here http://danscomp.net/ isn't a website, I use it for email and a variety of other purpose's that aren't all http oriented.
Who the hell are you to say whether or not I'm using my domain?
Second, Why shouldn't I be allowed to reserve a name I may use in the future?
Today I sold something on eBay without scamming the buyer.
Where is my reward whats my incentive to NOT commit fraud?
If I don't get anything more than the fair and agreed price I'm going to take the buyers money and not bother delivering the product. That'll show them.
Slashdot Mirror
It just adds a new challenge now you have to chase the hotspot down the highway.
No the United States of America doesn't own the internet, they often think they do but they don't.
What's wrong with email as it is?
I know it chews CPU time when a spammer blasts you, but that happens with all services connected to the Internet.
Changing a protocol is only going to cause incompatability issues.
But do you count the "origin" as the spammers country or the location of the servers?
I see allot of spam coming from china but it appears to be mostly linked with US products.
Not forgetting to put a drill down the barrel just in case they do find the gun.
I'll stick to the wood bat as weapon of choice for murder, it can easily be disposed of with fire.
But what if they turn out to be innocent?
Then we'll look like idiots.
Arn't you being abit harsh requiring proof?
That sinks 99% of all arguments on /.
Your main address wouldn't happen to be @gmail would it?
I'm sure spambots harvest this site and /.'s way of masking e-mail's is pretty ineffective against all but the most simple of bots.
I was with hotmail before Microsoft came in. It's the only free provider I ever used, now I only use email from my own domains so that I am never locked into a provider.
This logo brings back memories
http://danscomp.net/hotmail_logo.gif
The MPAA are an organised crime group as we have seen time and time again.
"Innocent until proven guilty? "
Yes,
I recall my history teacher mentioning that.
No they DON'T have any permission from me.
I'm required to give a copy to the library when I publish something.
But he won't do it again will he?
The system works.
http://en-gb.fxfeeds.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/headlines.xml
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
and of course my own
http://www.theinane.com/feed
Wouldn't .xxx just be another extension and nothing more?
I think the problem is that established site's might have someone else take their name.
If they had done that in the first place they wouldn't be in this mess.
My domain danscomp.net as you can see here http://danscomp.net/ isn't a website, I use it for email and a variety of other purpose's that aren't all http oriented.
Who the hell are you to say whether or not I'm using my domain?
Second,
Why shouldn't I be allowed to reserve a name I may use in the future?
Why not open an unlicensed WiMax spectrum?
Do what we did with WiFi and let the people operate the hotspots
Incentive?
Today I sold something on eBay without scamming the buyer.
Where is my reward whats my incentive to NOT commit fraud?
If I don't get anything more than the fair and agreed price I'm going to take the buyers money and not bother delivering the product. That'll show them.
~Dan
We have caches with all the legal P2P content and yet no decline in P2P traffic. So it's proven that P2P is mainly used for illegal means".
But how do they know what is and isn't legal content?
Since they don't have common carrier status it is illegal for them to cache all the illegal content I download.
Curious, how do you know you have downloaded (and/or uploaded) 12GBs?
Are you serious? its not exactly rocket science.But where's the crime?
While their at might as well shut off your electricity, gas and water