From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac4955b8006bd13c
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
Received: by 10.205.122.65 with SMTP id gf1mr28217bkc.2.1339028434561;
        Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:20:34 -0700 (PDT)
Path: 
 e27ni21801bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Q: type ... is new String
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:20:33 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Message-ID: <4ab2ef10-9003-466c-9da2-423d7276e915@googlegroups.com>
References: <jq5i58$qe8$1@speranza.aioe.org> <jqi6qb$oms$1@dont-email.me>
 <82defba0-2d39-4418-b678-ebbefeb105d7@x21g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>
 <4fcccd1f$0$6583$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>
 <ljq3c42wn6kg.137fdbql13gf0$.dlg@40tude.net>
 <op.wfebed0zule2fv@douda-yannick>
 <4fcd283e$0$9502$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net>
 <jqor1g$8om$1@munin.nbi.dk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1339028434 1809 127.0.0.1 (7 Jun 2012 00:20:34
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 00:20:34 +0000 (UTC)
In-Reply-To: <jqor1g$8om$1@munin.nbi.dk>
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com;
 posting-host=66.126.103.122;
 posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ
User-Agent: G2/1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Date: 2012-06-06T17:20:33-07:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 5:01:44 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Georg Bauhaus"  wrote in message=20
> news:4fcd283e$0$9502$9b4e6d93 at newsspool1.arcor-online.net...
> > On 04.06.12 22:33, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57) wrote:
> >> Le Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:14:49 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov=20
> >> a =E9crit:
> >>> Miserable state of internet standards
> >>
> >> JavaScript is not representative of Internet standards ;-) . There are=
=20
> >> not all so miserable as JavaScript is.
> >
> > The internet is largely operated without following standards.
>=20
> Which is why the Internet is a warren of attacks and vulrabilities.

Well, that's one reason.  But it's not the only reason.  Some of the standa=
rds themselves weren't appropriate for an Internet accessible to the genera=
l public.  In particular, SMTP was designed for a research community where =
people could mostly trust each other, and then it was used without modifica=
tion when "the Internet" came into being, making it easy for criminals to s=
end unverifiable e-mail with spam and viruses and not get tracked down.  At=
 least that's how I see it.  If it could be done over again, I'd hope the g=
urus would replace SMTP with something more secure before the whole system =
was unleashed on the public.  I think that's the biggest single thing that =
should have been done.

But... sigh... hindsight is 20/20.  So maybe we should hope that by 2020 we=
 can start doing all the things that should have been done earlier...  <gri=
n>

                        -- Adam