Re: mailing list spams

[jms @ tardis . Tymnet . COM (Joe Smith)]

> >>If all of the SMTP servers on the Internet were changed
> >...pigs would fly. Next idea.
>
> Hunh?  Hardware lasts two years.  Software six months.

You mean, whiz-bang, fancy, state-of-the-art software for individual
computers last six months.  Software that talks to other computers using
international standards can easily be six years old.  Especially the
low-level, isolated-from-the-user, worker programs.
	-Joe