[brlug-general] Alarm! Political Censorship of Email.

[Andrew Baudouin]

On 9/20/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> If those filters and port blocks did anything to block spam, I'd believe
> you.
> I can tell you that AOL and Hotmails spam filters are largely ineffective
> because my wife uses one and my mom used to use the other until it became
> unbearable.  You and I both know that the vast majority of spam now comes
> from botnets of home PCs on broadband connections and we also know that
> spam
> outnumbers legitmate email even after filters.
>
> The real answer to the botnet problem is OS diversification.  At least one
> in
> four computers is part of a botnet.  If ISPs really cared, they would not
> still be promoting the monoculture.


<snip the madness>

So now it's up to the ISPs to force users to switch.

I hear they are hiring at Apple...
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