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[Wes Kussmaul <wes@village.com>]

erik quanstrom wrote:
> there wasn't any spam.  
Ah yes, that's one thing the immigrants from our commercial online 
services brought with them. Spam. Al Gore may have invented the Net, but 
our users invented spam.
> i don't think the evolution of the net (or computers for that matter) is a story 
> of the good old days and constant regression or the converse.  i think it's a story
> of (slightly?  how pessamistic are you?) more advances than regressions.
>   
I agree, but I'm real pessimistic about the next 5 years.

Then after the fraud and anarchy force the world to institute a 
universal ID-PKI with privacy protection, things will get better.

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My uncle likes to say that the world’s biggest troubles started when the serpent said, “Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it’s the same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.” I don’t get the serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a bit obscure. 

                         P.K. Iggy
                         _How I Like Fixed The Internet_
                           (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009
                           and the prosperity that followed)