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To: Elsewhere who wrote (7404)	6/16/2004 3:41:05 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Thanks Jochen. For every celebrated token capture like that one, there are how many thousands that go unapprehended, or better yet, their effects unchecked? It's like the Software Association sending out garbage mail to mom and pop shops threatening that if they are caught using a hijacked copy of Word they'd be subject to the penalty of law, leading to incarceration. As though a mom and pop shop in my neighborhood would let one of these jokers in to do an inspection. Once in a while they actually go after someone and lock up a kid in Brooklyn, while some universities, never mind the entire PacRim and most of Asia, float on a sea of misappropriated code. I suppose I wouldn't be so cynical if I didn't spend as much time as I do cleaning up my mail accounts, and wondering if indeed the piece I just deleted was in fact spam. But you are right in that something, even if unnoticeable, is being done by the better ISPs. I sometimes wonder about the transit and backbone outfits who actually get paid by the megabit, and how they feel about clamping down on spam, which is, I believe, tantamount to clamping down on porn, where traffic volumes are concerned. (Does anyone here have comparative stats on the two?) There must be some tensions there, I'd imagine, about contemplating the measures that could be used to cut down on both spam and porn, effectively contemplating the cutting off of one's own source of revenues, under the heading of "the greater good." What do you think? FAC frank@fttx.org