ISP Information:
This protocol is the basis for DHCP. It allows a client computer to receive an IP address from a BootP server without having a static IP address defined beforehand on the client machine.
ISP Glossary:
BootP - Steve Michelson wrote about Re: US AntispamBill is Death to Anonymity on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:48:55 GMT: After reading the bill (as you suggested), I see that it only applies to the sending of multiple commercial e-mail messages, where: Multiple is defined (in the bill) as: more than 100 electronic mail messages during a 24-hour period, more than 1,000 electronic mail messages during a 30-day period, or more than 10,000 electronic mail messages during a 1-year period.That would appear to cover most large Email users. Do you send 100messages a day, including all copies, at least some of the time? Commercial is defined (in the bill) as: any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service (including content on an Internet website operated for a commercial purpose). What is the problem? How does this criminalize nearly everyone with a hotmail account?All the web mail sites include an ad at the bottom of outgoingmail. You define "primary purpose" not to include that message. Yet,obviously, the purpose of the website's giving you an account is toget you to put their add before the "public" (your recipients). Thus,all hotmail users are certainly at risk. Marcus Didius Falco wrote in message news:telecom22.764.4@telecom-digest.org: Looks as if nearly everyone with a hotmail account will be technically in violation of the law. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Has anyone ever noticed how the persons who (such as the guy quoted by Marcus) complain about almost anything and everything intended as an anti-spam measure, who are certain that the measure, if implemented, for sure will spell the death of the net fail to notice how if anything spells the modern 'death of the net' these days it is the way we are slowly getting buried in spam? Some of them seem unwilling to even try anything. PAT]That is the problem. We are going to lose something. Spam has cost usa lot of time and effort filtering our mail, and raised costs forbandwidth and larger mail servers. Moreover, at least one of my ISPsdoes permit some spammers (as some people define spam -- my ISPdiffers), so my mail is blocked from some recipients -- I have to usea backup ISP to email them.The choice is in what we lose. We have lost something to spam, thoughI've gotten it down to barely tolerable levels for myself by heavyfiltering.Loss of anonymity is one price we may pay. What will we regain if wegive it up?argument was made aboutdriver's licenses and automobile tags back about 1905 or so. "We willlose our anonymity if we are forced by government fiat to use thosethings". But now, it is quite routine. And what happens to you if youdecide to be smart and switch your tag plate (or obscure it) whendriving if a police officer stops you? Or what happens to you if youdecide to forge or illegally duplicate a drivers license and getcaught doing it? Computers and network connectivity are now at thepoint that driving cars was around 1905-1910 or so.Wait until computers and networks get to the 1990's (in automobiledriving). Its just a matter of time. I cannot predict with anycertainty, however I think that maybe by the year 2010-2015 there willbe some method of absolutely identifying who sent something viacomputer, ala drivers licenses, maybe like an automobile VINnumber. (Yes, I know that is redundant, a Vehicle IdentificationNumber number.) But you know, or should know, things will get to thatpoint. They'll have to. All the spam haters (most all of us) will havegone by then, and give up fighting it.Yet there will continue to be some netizens who say "well Ihave heavily protected myself. I leave my car in the garage, and onlydrive it once a week on Sunday and I watch for all sorts of trouble onthe roads. If everyone was as smart and sophisticated as myself, wewould not need those VINS on cars (or CINs on computers) and it is aninvasion of my privacy and anyway they've never been able to figure
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