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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-03 07:27:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Evil browser-specific web sites (was: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Message-ID: References: <8766c7h2zm.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <5m0a7.21097$Kd7.13099003@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> <87r8uvuu48.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9hja7.1803$tQ5.728008@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 3 Aug 2001 10:27:22 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 996848844 216.44.122.34 (Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:27:24 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:27:24 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11215 Date: 2001-08-03T10:27:22-05:00 List-Id: In article , Ted Dennison writes: > As a counter-measure, I'd feel better about just refusing to link to any > browser-specific sites. If they don't want to be part of the > platform-independent internet as it was intended to be, then we should *let* > them be their own separate IE-internet. :-) http://www.tbtf.com/exclusionary.html http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/