Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

In article <63CD2031-701D-4567-B88A-2986E8B3F359 () beckman org> you write:
> But as I said, harvesting emails is not illegal under can spam. 

This might be a good time to review 15 USC 7704(b)(1), which is titled
"Address harvesting and dictionary attacks".

> And the requirement to not send you UCE to harvested emails
> is pointless, because how do you prove that someone did that?

This is law, not software.  If a bunch of people who went to a trade
show get spam to the addresses they used when they registered, well,
duh.

R's,
John