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One of the more interesting slashdot stories of the week-end dealt with the suspected relationship between the sobig worms and the recent series of denial of service attacks against various spam-blocking services.

The slashdot item was triggered by this article from the register; in a comment, Kristian Köhntopp points to some interesting analysis of the various Sobig variants.

Memo to anyone who ever sets up a mailing list: Never, ever let the envelope sender for list messages point back to the list.

The GNSO secretariat points to some updated travel information for participants in ICANN's Carthage meetings at http://www.icanncarthage.tn/.

Escapable Logic has a piece named "Publicize the Internet" that looks at the Internet as an important tool for democracy, and hopes that a president named Dean might help rescue it from losing its end-to-end character even further.

Elliot Noss is more optimistic and suggests that it's all, in fact, quite easy: Just make sure that you get most of your services from "competitive service providers," i.e., from those who innovate and offer services at the net's edges -- and have a natural incentive to defend the net's end-to-end character, as it enables their business models.