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RE: Spam with no purpose?
From: Todd Vierling <tv () duh org>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:51:24 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Scott Call wrote: : 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.... AP will face the same problem as Habeas: tracing the spam backwards through the open proxies and China hosting to get information about the real source. RFG ran a honeypot open proxy network that collected information about allegedly "real" proxy-rape spam sources, but he was DDoS'd to death by such people, and then gave up on the effort [publicly? who knows?]. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv () duh org> <tv () pobox com>
Current thread:
- RE: Spam with no purpose?, (continued)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Paul Jakma (Apr 02)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Michel Py (Mar 31)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Michel Py (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Michael . Dillon (Apr 01)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Michel Py (Apr 01)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Michel Py (Apr 04)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Todd Vierling (Apr 05)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Paul Jakma (Apr 05)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Michel Py (Apr 05)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Scott Call (Apr 05)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Todd Vierling (Apr 05)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Chris Adams (Apr 05)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Scott Call (Apr 05)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Michel Py (Apr 05)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Paul Jakma (Apr 05)