To: webmaster@winntmag.com From: jamie@mccarthy.org Subject: Unable to reach article
Dear webmaster,
I read about your NT-Linux comparison on slashdot.org. However, I was unable to get through to your Microsoft-IIS/4.0 website because:
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Good luck getting it back online. I feel your pain...my company used to run its webserver on NT too...
In other words, your favorite e1eet hackerz site that happens to have a copy of Up Yours or any other mailbombing software is now guilty of a misdemeanor in the state of Virginia and subject to a fine of $1000 for each and every download of that software.
(One could even argue that sendmail itself, that famous MTA built on trust and cooperation instead of verification and security, is software that fits the above description. The following clause requires that it also have "the intent to facilitate the transmission of false e-mail." Would that mean that anyone offering a downloadable copy of sendmail without the antispam provisions built into recent versions is also liable for $1000 per download?)
It is possible to write a good law against spam. This is nowhere near that law. This is a brutally overbroad law which criminalizes a wide range of legitimate and proper activity on the net, and the ACLU deserves our thanks for challenging it.
For those who are too young to remember, Hayes invented much of the modem's technology, pioneered the "AT" command set, and tried to make their investment back by positioning themselves as the premium brand. For many years, they were significantly more expensive than - we're talking maybe twice the price of - any other brand.
Everyone respected Hayes for their work and thought standardizing the AT command set was a great idea. All the BBS people I hung out with in the 1980s thought they made great modems. None of us actually owned one.
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From: jamie@mccarthy.org
Subject: Unable to reach article
Dear webmaster,
I read about your NT-Linux comparison on slashdot.org. However, I was unable to get through to your Microsoft-IIS/4.0 website because:
Good luck getting it back online. I feel your pain...my company used to run its webserver on NT too...
Jamie McCarthy
Among other questionable things, this law criminalizes "distributing software which makes possible the transmission of false e-mail."
http://leg1.s tate.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=991&typ=bil&val =sb881
In other words, your favorite e1eet hackerz site that happens to have a copy of Up Yours or any other mailbombing software is now guilty of a misdemeanor in the state of Virginia and subject to a fine of $1000 for each and every download of that software.
(One could even argue that sendmail itself, that famous MTA built on trust and cooperation instead of verification and security, is software that fits the above description. The following clause requires that it also have "the intent to facilitate the transmission of false e-mail." Would that mean that anyone offering a downloadable copy of sendmail without the antispam provisions built into recent versions is also liable for $1000 per download?)
It is possible to write a good law against spam. This is nowhere near that law. This is a brutally overbroad law which criminalizes a wide range of legitimate and proper activity on the net, and the ACLU deserves our thanks for challenging it.
Jamie McCarthy
Jamie McCarthy
Jamie McCarthy
Jamie McCarthy
For those who are too young to remember, Hayes invented much of the modem's technology, pioneered the "AT" command set, and tried to make their investment back by positioning themselves as the premium brand. For many years, they were significantly more expensive than - we're talking maybe twice the price of - any other brand.
Everyone respected Hayes for their work and thought standardizing the AT command set was a great idea. All the BBS people I hung out with in the 1980s thought they made great modems. None of us actually owned one.
Jamie McCarthy