The war won’t be over until the last spammer’s head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

Fragmentation is like classful addressing – an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.

With usenet gone, we just don’t teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.

The internet is not for sissies.

Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.

The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

Personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.