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#! rnews 4149 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!news2.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!news From: Giuliano Carlini <giuliano@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-access,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.software-eng,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.system,co mp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,control,misc.consumers.frugal-living,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.misc,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.motherboards,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.portables,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.software,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.systems Subject: Re: Proper Spam Protocol (was Re: $$$ Make 20,000 ...) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:47:22 -0700 Organization: Netcom Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3213C51A.32A6@ix.netcom.com> References: <4tpido$fif@news.nstn.ca> <4tqujk$1a0_002@bryonip.iglobal.net> <32077452.1F37@nando.net> <ballabio-0708960123520001@nntp.tsl.uu.se> <320A8646.1228@ix.netcom.com> <320FB124.5FDE@internorth.com> <raffael-1408962226040001@macav.tiac.net> <32133789.3994@engin.umich.edu> <raffael-1508961534250001@macav.tiac.net> Reply-To: giuliano@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lbx-ca9-24.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Aug 15 7:47:05 PM CDT 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.databases.ms-access:93560 comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:90475 comp.lang.c++:179644 comp.lang.java:74101 comp.lang.perl.misc:36761 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:171743 comp.software-eng:41840 comp.sys.amiga.games:99783 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action:160566 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure:115711 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim:124312 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg:99184 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic:170295 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:69652 comp.sys.laptops:75063 comp.sys.mac.a pps:157193 comp.sys.mac.comm:162544 comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:43447 comp.sys.mac.misc:133596 comp.sys.mac.portables:61877 comp.sys.mac.system:169655 comp.unix.aix:82872 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25542 control:1342418 misc.consumers.frugal-living:19486 misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.misc:31126 misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.motherboards:28407 misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.portables:21136 misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.software:28185 misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.systems:19001 Raffael Cavallaro wrote: > > It might interest you to know that internic, the internet's governing > body, which owns and registers for use *all* domain names, is now owned by > a private corporation whose board of directors reads like a who's who of > former CIA and DOD officials . I believe that all the internic does is says NAME=ID; ie they're a real big dictionary. This gives them very little control of the net, other than having 15 sites become foo.com. In fact, I think this is really just a gentlemen's convention, at least as far as the routers go. If I were to hook up to the net as MICROSOFT.COM, the net would allow it, although some of its routers would get real confused with to IP address assigned to MICROSOFT.COM. Of course, when Microsoft found out, they'd put a stop to it pronto; while the CIA and NSA can't know everything that happens on the Net, I'm not so sure about BillG. I'd agree with you however if you scale back your statement from the US inteligence controls the net, to they monitor the net. There's no way they catch every byte going by, but you can be sure they catch a lot of the ones their interested in... g