I think the only way to cut down on spam without making everyone change email clients, or re-write the protocols, is to enforce ISP based spam blocking.
This means that an ISPs customers must use the mail server of their ISP - otherwise all their STMP trafic gets dumped. Second, the ISP must monitor how many outbound messages a customers computer is sending. If they go above a email a minute (perhaps averaged out over an hour? half an hour?) their SMTP access is blocked, either permanently (until the customer rings the ISP) or for a set amount of time, afte which access is restored. If they keep tripping out their SMTP access, the ISP should block them automatically.
When the user calls the ISP complaining about how they can't send email, the ISP must have good staff able to walk them through downloading, installing and configuring anti-virus and firewall utilities.
DISCLAIMER: I've never used OpenOffice - my job is completely win32 based - so i don't know if you can open MSOffice docs with it. I have spent a little bit of time with StarOffice and KWord (sp?).
I'd say that OO will never be a serious threat to MSO until it can open, edit and save an MSO file. Otherwise theres just too many users of MSO out there for anyone to bother changing. Why would you cripple yourself like that?
I'm sure that the folks at MS are smart enough to know this as well, so will be protecting the file format as much as possible.
What about from a sense-of-achievment-from-your-job-today type of thing?
I would think "wow, I improved the optimisation routine from n^22 complexity to 2n^8" (which is a _good_ day for me) wouldn't be a hundreth of one percent of "wow, there's a person living that would be dead if it weren't for me"
I can't help but wonder what people would be saying if the Wright brothers flew first, but didn't make a fuss about it, and then Pearse flew 6 months later, but did all the publicity schtuff.
Would overall sentiment be that Pearse flew first? or would the Wrights be championed?
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I think the only way to cut down on spam without making everyone change email clients, or re-write the protocols, is to enforce ISP based spam blocking.
This means that an ISPs customers must use the mail server of their ISP - otherwise all their STMP trafic gets dumped. Second, the ISP must monitor how many outbound messages a customers computer is sending. If they go above a email a minute (perhaps averaged out over an hour? half an hour?) their SMTP access is blocked, either permanently (until the customer rings the ISP) or for a set amount of time, afte which access is restored. If they keep tripping out their SMTP access, the ISP should block them automatically.
When the user calls the ISP complaining about how they can't send email, the ISP must have good staff able to walk them through downloading, installing and configuring anti-virus and firewall utilities.
your thoughts?
Its hard to take someone seriously when they think that "Internet" is short for "International Network".
its "Inter-connected Network" dumbass.
I don't think thats ridiculous at all!!
I'm already running a machine at 2GHz, with 1 1/4 gigs of ram, and 300 gigs of HDD space.
4 years ago I was running a machine with 300 MHz, 64MB of RAM, and 4Gb of HDD space.
So in that same timespan, we only have to progress about the same amount. Doesn't seem impossible to me!! C
I can't believe someone thought that was a troll.
and here I was thinking this was a place for a serious discussion.
how wrong i was.
DISCLAIMER: I've never used OpenOffice - my job is completely win32 based - so i don't know if you can open MSOffice docs with it. I have spent a little bit of time with StarOffice and KWord (sp?).
I'd say that OO will never be a serious threat to MSO until it can open, edit and save an MSO file. Otherwise theres just too many users of MSO out there for anyone to bother changing. Why would you cripple yourself like that?
I'm sure that the folks at MS are smart enough to know this as well, so will be protecting the file format as much as possible.
What about from a sense-of-achievment-from-your-job-today type of thing?
I would think "wow, I improved the optimisation routine from n^22 complexity to 2n^8" (which is a _good_ day for me) wouldn't be a hundreth of one percent of "wow, there's a person living that would be dead if it weren't for me"
Just my 2c. R
I can't help but wonder what people would be saying if the Wright brothers flew first, but didn't make a fuss about it, and then Pearse flew 6 months later, but did all the publicity schtuff. Would overall sentiment be that Pearse flew first? or would the Wrights be championed?