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Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack
From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex () Relcom EU net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 22:52:23 +0300 (MSK)
Hi. Let me a few words. I was talking to a few of this kids last months, and unfortunately everything is not so easy to fix. Yes, 99.9% of this attacks are _the kid's play_. I do not know how to fix kid's heads over the whole world, but let's imagine you have found some way to do it. And... let's be waiting for someone - not kid, from Iraq, for example, who use this as the electronic weapon. Why not? It's amazing but this kid's games have a positive effect among the negative ones. Yes, they cause a problems and make a troubles for someone. On the other hand, they allow you to see where do you have the weakness _BEFORE_ someone seriously try to exploit this. As we are talking here - the pike (in the river) don't allow other fishes to slumber (sorry for the bad translation).
Fixing the kids heads, I'm sure we all agree, would be the correct solution. But I don't believe this is really practical or possible. So what should be done is to make it so that they have no effect. So my position is that until we do have a practical solution to solve the cause of the problem, we simply have to deal with the effects the best we can, and this does mean dealing with and addressing the symptoms so that we do not suffer the effects.
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- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack danderson (Jan 12)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Dalvenjah FoxFire (Jan 12)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Steve Gibbard (Jan 12)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Craig A. Huegen (Jan 12)
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- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Dean Anderson (Jan 12)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Dan Hollis (Jan 12)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Brandon Ross (Jan 12)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Phil Howard (Jan 13)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Alex P. Rudnev (Jan 13)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Brandon Ross (Jan 13)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Dan Hollis (Jan 13)
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- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Peter Swedock (Jan 14)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Alex P. Rudnev (Jan 14)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Joe Shaw (Jan 14)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack David Lesher (Jan 14)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack David Lesher (Jan 14)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Dan Hollis (Jan 14)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Brandon Ross (Jan 14)
- Re: Solution: Re: Huge smurf attack Dan Hollis (Jan 14)