On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:55:22PM +0200, Crucificator wrote: > > Of what interest this might be to you? Probing for holes? Writing a very > > fast spreading virus? You chose the wrong approach... :) > > I've tried, but I can think of absolutely no reason why anybody would > EVER need to communicate with everybody on the Internet. Never, ever. > Not that any attempt to reach everybody would be successful anyway since > a large majority of connected people are behind some sort of firewall > and a significantly larger percentage of people won't speak the same > language as the prober. > Ah, Ed, you obviously didn't try hard enough! What if a massive asteroid was heading towards earth, and we needed to let all of the Internet junkies know that they only had an hour to live? What if the Xeno-Barbarians from the Crab Nebula arrived and were landing somewhere on Earth? Wouldn't everybody on the Internet need to know, and immediately? We *obviously* need to expand the ICMP packet types... Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
