In <00e601c42644$860654d0$22905841(_at_)cary> "Cary Fitch"
<Sage(_at_)usawide(_dot_)net> writes:
Not to start a political discussion, and I am all in favor of "Internet
Liberty" but some things have to be handled somehow by somebody, because
there are limited socially acceptable ways of handling abusers. Some years
ago with by today's standards, very few sites on the Internet everybody was
a peer and a "master site".
I've always considered this "everyone is a peer" to be largely a myth.
There were always (at least) two classes: lusers and BOHFs. The
former couldn't create their own domain names, were stuck with only
one (or a few) email addresses, couldn't change IP addresses, couldn't
run servers, had quotas, etc. End-users also had someone else dealing
with keeping the software up-to-date, doing backups, had someone else
doing the policing of abusive users, etc.
What the net today lacks is good sysadmins. End-users are stuck with
ISPs that don't do most of the sysadmin work that is required, forcing
end-users to be something they aren't and don't want to become.
Businesses also often lack good sysadmins, but that is a somewhat
separate issue.
-wayne