Not only did I read the article but I've been using MAPS for years on every sendmail server that I admin. In fact the most recent versions of sendmail have MAPS turned on by default. Currently we have customers who get 10-20times more spam then they get valid email. Without MAPS that figure would be even higher. MAPS kills off the most egregious offenders. This is not censorship of ideas or speech, it is a collective effort of ISPs to defend against:
1. trespass
2. theft of telecomunication services
3. harassment
4. denial of service attacks
"The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits."
[Paul Vixie, NANOG mailing list, Sept.1997]
If you *just* finished the last homework then you better not have used any of your late days on the other assignments considering Nieh only gives 3 late days:P The last assignment was easy.
--Another Columbia student in the OSI class this semester.
A friend of mine tried to fight these kinds of things all through high school. He put together his own publication and despite many confiscations, threats, and discipline attempts he distributed it, led protests, and made students heard. He runs a webpage called http://www.youthpower.net where he currently helps students at other schools, collects and distributes stories, and continues to fight for youth power.
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Not only did I read the article but I've been using MAPS for years on every sendmail server that I admin. In fact the most recent versions of sendmail have MAPS turned on by default. Currently we have customers who get 10-20times more spam then they get valid email. Without MAPS that figure would be even higher. MAPS kills off the most egregious offenders. This is not censorship of ideas or speech, it is a collective effort of ISPs to defend against: 1. trespass 2. theft of telecomunication services 3. harassment 4. denial of service attacks "The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits." [Paul Vixie, NANOG mailing list, Sept.1997]
Once you have seen spam from an ISP's angle you realize how beligerant something like MAPS must be in order to be at all effective.
If you *just* finished the last homework then you better not have used any of your late days on the other assignments considering Nieh only gives 3 late days :P The last assignment was easy.
--Another Columbia student in the OSI class this semester.
A friend of mine tried to fight these kinds of things all through high school. He put together his own publication and despite many confiscations, threats, and discipline attempts he distributed it, led protests, and made students heard. He runs a webpage called http://www.youthpower.net where he currently helps students at other schools, collects and distributes stories, and continues to fight for youth power.