[58476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: identity theft != spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Thu May 15 16:32:17 2003
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 16:25:09 -0400
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E19GMJA-0001Em-90@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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One bit of insight to take away from this is the fact that if he was forced=
to commit=20
identity theft and fraud in order to continue his spamming, then obviously =
we're doing=20
/something/ right...
The flip side is the realization that professional spamming is lucrative en=
ough that=20
at least for one person, it was worth the risk of breaking the law in order=
to keep it=20
up.
-C
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 07:14:19PM +0200, Randy Bush wrote:
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> this exemplifies the corporate and legislative attempt to confuse
> spam =3D=3D uce with forgery. if they can make the latter the issue,
> this leaves the way completely clear for unsolicited commercial
> email from the corporate sector which now fills our post boxes with
> ground trees.
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> randy
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