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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@iocane.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:44:37 +1030

Re: ZDNet: New worm burrows into Aust systems

"David Lloyd" <dlloyd@microbits.com.au> wrote:

>> Probably because at the moment the latter kills less people when it
>> fails.  I don't think formal legislation would help much either, though
>> (witness the recent Queensland changes to who can play with eletrickery
>> and who can't).

> <sarcasm>
> I suppose that bandwidth providers aren't going to charge for the traffic
> generated by administrators who let things like the Love Bug or such
> through, or the MS SQL worm, or the XYZ "bandwidth waster" because of
> their altruistic nature and understanding that it's really not the
> administrator's fault.
> </sarcasm>

Having a hard time reconciling those two paragraphs ...

Regards,
  Daryl Tester,
  IOCANE Pty. Ltd.


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