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Re: Reporting Little Blue Men
From: Dennis Simpson <dennis () bconnex net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:54:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Dean Anderson <dean () av8 com> But when you take the step from advocacy to actions you are violating the law in almost every case. You can advocate anything, but you can't go tearing down buildings, or in this case, intercepting communications.
Filtering packets is not interception, it is disregard. If I ignore your packets and do not pass them to the next machine in the link, I am not intercepting your communications, I am ignoring them. Unless you are paying me to do so, I have no obligation to carry your packets. If my server checks message headers to determine validity before transferring to a spool file, I am not intercepting, I am determining message routing. As above, if you aren't paying me, I have no obligation to deliver something you handed me for delivery. Or are you suggesting mail servers should deliver mail without determining who it is for? If I review the content of your message, and then make decisions about who gets to read it (as opposed to discarding it), then I am intercepting, and reprehensible. I cannot block mail espousing causes I disagree with, but I have no obligation to deliver them either. Find yourself another path to my client; I won't do anything to permit or prevent it. I am not blocking you. I am also not assisting you. That is neither illegal nor immoral. SPAM yourself silly. dennis
Current thread:
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men, (continued)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men NetSurfer (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Phil Howard (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Dave Stoddard (Jan 21)
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- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Jay R. Ashworth (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Gary E. Miller (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Henry Linneweh (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Steve Sobol (Jan 23)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Eric Wieling (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Michael Dillon (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Taner Halicioglu (Jan 21)
- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Phil Howard (Jan 21)
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- Re: Reporting Little Blue Men Dean Anderson (Jan 21)
- Re: ridiculous misreadings of laws John R. Levine (Jan 22)