[Smaug] Zero tolerance for P2P?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting John Callaway (john.callaway@visicomp.com):

> In addition to shutting down all networking, internal and external,
> they will have to also remove all CD burners (of which there is at
> least one in the grad lab at 340 JBE), Zip drives, floppy drives (if
> any of those are left), and printers.  Then, at last, the pirates will
> be defeated, or will they?

All mail will have to be scanned for yet another contraband technology,
MIME attachments:  You never know when someone might attach a cartoon
mouse to a message or newsgroup post.  For that matter, the dastardly 
deed might be done with other forms of ASCII encoding -- or someone
might post the dialogue from the next Sylvester Stallone movie.

We might just have to revert to the telegraph -- and I have my suspicions
about evil things that might be concealed in Morse Code.

-- 
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Rick Moen                   -- David B. O'Donnel, sysadmin for America Online
rick@linuxmafia.com