"mc" wrote in message
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"Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover""
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But someday all the i's will get dotted and t's crossed and the
spammers
will not have any way to hide. That may take IPV6, which seems like
it
should have been implemented long ago, but still hasn't. Don't hold
your breath.

Yes. And people will whine about the loss of their precious
"electronic
frontier" as the Internet ceases to be a fantasyland above and beyond
the
law.

Only in their minds.

The Internet was designed for use within research establishments where
people were all, at some level, accountable and trustworthy. It has
become
a playground for con artists and pests.

All, at some level, accountable and trustworthy? Not really. The first
spam was in 1978, so there were problems from the beginning.

Basically what you have is the virtual world has become a microcosm of
the real world. Nothing more, nothing less.

It may take another half century. I'm reminded of the chaos that
afflicted
radio before WWI. People just chose their own frequencies and hoped
nobody
would interfere with them, knowingly or unknowingly.

Well, they say that 5 years in the virtual world is an eternity...

(And thus I bring the subject matter back to that of the newsgroups
we're
in!