bzs@pinocchio.UUCP (Barry Shein) (11/16/88)
From: Richard Mlynarik <MLY@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU> >Ecologists have known for some time of the many disadvantages of >single-species ecosystems. The spread of the Sendmail `worm' is a >good illustration of the ravages which a single, well-targeted disease >can inflict upon such an ecosystem. If that analogy holds then why not apply it to, eg, TCP/IP itself? Surely if we all ran different network protocols the risk of a virus would be zero'd immediately. At any rate, I think we all now understand this ecology analogy, I am waiting for someone to stand up and say that the concept of standards is wrong because they encourage viruses and propose active non-standardization with some plan/proposal for implementation. Perhaps we can have a conference on pro-active non-standardization somewhere in Babel... -Barry Shein, ||Encore||