[49367] in Cypherpunks
Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Tue Feb 6 16:22:35 1996
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 13:16:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960206132917.8103C-100000@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
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On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, zinc wrote:
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> regarding this paper; it's sent out by an autoresponder. is it illegal
> to make excessive use of the autoresponder? this would be a type of
> denial of service attack.
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> i'm wondering if i set up a cron job to request a copy every 5 or 10
> minutes and just send it to /dev/nul, could i get in more trouble than
> say, someone just telling me to cut it out?
Regardless of the legal merits, this would be called "being an asshole."
The guy who runs mailback.com is just another common carrier.
- -rich
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~llurch/
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