Actually, the company that does abuse for UUnet (RCN) is surprisingly small. I'd say about 10 people at the most handling mounds of abuse for UUnet and several other ISPs. This includes any kind of system abuse (cracking, harrasment, etc, as well as spam), and I am generally amazed at how much they are able to do with such a small staff. Despite all this, however, about 40% of my spam comes from their domain...
Isn't that what this whole equality thing is all about? I'm not a chickclicker or a geekgrrl or any other sexist moniker you wish to apply to me. I am a geek who happens to be a woman. My browsing habits probably don't differ that much from yours. I buy hardware, not lipstick. I read Slashdot and Ars Technica, not any of those frilly "women's" pages. Yet, somehow, I must be different, right? I have to deal with my relatives asking me if a network administrator is a type of secretary when I tell them what I do. I have to listen as vendors and support personnel assume I don't know what I'm talking about because my voice has a higher pitch than theirs. Now I have to put up with this crap in my own "community" as well? Why is it such a novelty that I might actually know what I am doing? Did you really think that it takes a penis to run a computer? Come on, now, guys... you know better than that.
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Actually, the company that does abuse for UUnet (RCN) is surprisingly small. I'd say about 10 people at the most handling mounds of abuse for UUnet and several other ISPs. This includes any kind of system abuse (cracking, harrasment, etc, as well as spam), and I am generally amazed at how much they are able to do with such a small staff. Despite all this, however, about 40% of my spam comes from their domain...
Isn't that what this whole equality thing is all about? I'm not a chickclicker or a geekgrrl or any other sexist moniker you wish to apply to me. I am a geek who happens to be a woman. My browsing habits probably don't differ that much from yours. I buy hardware, not lipstick. I read Slashdot and Ars Technica, not any of those frilly "women's" pages. Yet, somehow, I must be different, right? I have to deal with my relatives asking me if a network administrator is a type of secretary when I tell them what I do. I have to listen as vendors and support personnel assume I don't know what I'm talking about because my voice has a higher pitch than theirs. Now I have to put up with this crap in my own "community" as well? Why is it such a novelty that I might actually know what I am doing? Did you really think that it takes a penis to run a computer? Come on, now, guys... you know better than that.