full-disclosure - I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

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From: andfarm at teknovis.com (Andrew Farmer)
Subject: I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

For those who don't want to figure it out for themselves, here's a diff 
from this to the second message. Go figure.

On 03 Dec 2004, at 16:38, Bob Smith wrote:
>> I think heads should roll over this. I think its the worst act a
> corporation has ever undertaken in the history of the internet.
>
> So speaketh n3td3v, prohpet, visionary, lord and leader of Full 
> Disclosure.
>
> The Internet has always been about vigilante justice. Aside from
> exceptionally egregious cases of wrongdoing, like

- child pornography,
+ sexually explicit material with children,

> fraud, or flagrant piracy, the Internet exists and operates beyond the
> boundaries of any one nation's laws. It is up to the people to self
> regulate.
>
> We have tried politely reasoning with spammers, we have tried ignoring
> spammers, we have tried _suing_ spammers. We've leisurely worked our
> way down the tree and are well past any sort of rational recourse. Now
> people are willing to resort to brute retaliation.
>
> When you sign on to the Internet, you accept this implicitly, to some
> degree or another.

+ If you screw up, people will blackhole you, flood you, or isolate you.

> Spammers have been

- slapping
+ lapping

> us in the face for too
> long, and now the Internet reacts and fights back.
>
> Everyone who downloaded that screensaver did so intentionally, this
> wasn't a trojan operating behind the scenes. The participants were
> willing

- combatants, the engine
+ combatants. The engine for the battle

> happened to come from Lycos this time,
> but there have been other efforts in the past as well.
>
> And if the spammers don't like my packets being sent to their system,
> all they have to do is send me a polite e-mail asking to be

- removed.
+ removed from my flood-list.

> It is really quite simple.
>
> -Taters
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