[69319] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spam with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Call)
Mon Apr 5 22:15:59 2004
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:15:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Call <scall@devolution.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <DD7FE473A8C3C245ADA2A2FE1709D90B0DB06B@server2003.arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Michel Py wrote:
> > Todd Vierling wrote:
> > This has already happened; there is some well known spam that
> > consists of HTML "content" or an image-based ad, with snippets
> > of recent AP newswire stories in the plaintext body section.
>
> Indeed, and between AP newswire, good random generators and quotations
> borrowed from the zillion pages of text available on the web, it's going
> to take a really, really smart software to make the difference between
> spam and real email.
>
Kinda of makes you wonder if AP and the like could go after spammers
habeaus style on copyright infringement. Since the spam is a source of
revenue, it could be construed as criminal copyright infringement as well
as civil....
-S
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