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Re: identity theft != spam


From: Charles Sprickman <spork () inch com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 21:39:14 -0400 (EDT)


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




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