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Re: Reporting Little Blue Men

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M. David Leonard)
Wed Jan 21 13:15:23 1998

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 21:30:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com>
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
cc: Eric Wieling <eric@ccti.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v03007809b0ead9ce8dd9@[198.3.136.121]>



On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Dean Anderson wrote:

> Here's what you can do:
> 
> Get people to stop illegally blocking spam, and then get the spammers to
> stop illegally using relays.  Once the network and online providers obey
> the law, you can ask the spammers to obey the law, too.  It's pretty
> pointless to only ask one group to obey the law.  It's pretty unlikely the
> FBI will step in to enforce the law on only group while allowing the other
> group break the law.


	Am I missing something here?  Since when was a law passed making 
it illegal to block spam?  Or is this wishful thinking on Dean's part?

					David

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