[58483] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: identity theft != spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Thu May 15 21:39:51 2003
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 21:39:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20030515202509.GA11939@semihuman.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Chris Woodfield wrote:
> The flip side is the realization that professional spamming is lucrative
> enough that at least for one person, it was worth the risk of breaking
> the law in order to keep it up.
Don't know about that, he couldn't make the $20K bail...
Charles
> -C
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 07:14:19PM +0200, Randy Bush wrote:
> >
> > this exemplifies the corporate and legislative attempt to confuse
> > spam == 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.
> >
> > randy
> >
>
