On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:28:57AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> Spam is just marketing.

    SWEN isn't marketing.  Part of this is about SWEN (and other similar
viruses/worms).

> Marketing is about making people buy stuff.
> Terrorism is about scaring people.
 
> imo we need to move towards a 'deny all else' information world and away
> from the largely 'permit all, except' world.

    And why would we do that?  Scared of a little spam?

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