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BIG-TIME SPAMMER ARRESTED UNDER TOUGH VIRGINIA LAW
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:12:36 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:16:00 -0800 From: Thomas Leavitt <thomas () thomasleavitt org> Subject: BIG-TIME SPAMMER ARRESTED UNDER TOUGH VIRGINIA LAW To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Cc: dave () farber net Declan/Dave, Much as I despise spammers, I believe this is an extraordinarily dangerous precedent... am I to be liable for prosecution in another state merely because, at one point or another, a communication I sent that violated neither the laws of my own state, nor the laws of the destination state, touched a piece of equipment in a state where some element of it was illegal? Are Internet users going to be forced to familiarize themselves with the laws of every state in the union, and the physical location of each and every piece of equipment in use, in order to avoid prosecution? I hate to say it, but I hope these guys get the best legal representation possible and that this law gets overturned... Regards, Thomas Leavitt BIG-TIME SPAMMER ARRESTED UNDER TOUGH VIRGINIA LAW One spammer has been arrested--and another is expected to turn himself in--under a strict new Virginia law. The law allows the state to prosecute spammers outside Virginia if they send e-mail that even passes through the state on its way elsewhere. Because Virginia is the home of America Online, more than half of the world's e-mail passes through the state. Jeremy Jaynes of North Carolina was arrested this week and will be extradited to Virginia to face charges that he used deceptive routing information in commercial e-mails, preventing recipients from identifying the source of the messages. The Virginia law makes such actions illegal, and the volume of e-mail sent by Jaynes makes the crime a felony. The other suspect, Richard Rutowski, also of North Carolina, is expected to surrender. Both are listed on Spamhaus's top-ten list of spammers. The two men face up to five years in prison on each of four felony counts. Internet News, 11 December 2003 http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3288131 -- Thomas Leavitt, Sr. Systems Admin For Hire Resume at http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/resume/ Phone: 408-591-3342 / Email: thomas () thomasleavitt org / Fax: 815-371-2804 Wired since 1981. Internet-enabled since 1990. Web-enabled since 1993. Older, wiser, and poorer, post-crash. :) Join the System/Database/Network Administrators Job Search Community: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sdnadminjobs/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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