On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 07:06, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:45:27PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > The website is hosted by Verio, Inc. in Colorado, USA, and the mail sent > > through another US ISP: Cox Communications, Inc in California. Is there > > anything in US Federal or state law that would support a prosecution for > > interfering with a computer, or maybe for criminal damage? Or perhaps > > we could email the spammer with a demand for compensation? > > Are you kidding? If you interfere with the operation of a computer system > you don't have access to in the US, you're officially a terrorist nowadays That gives a new meaning to "bug terrorism"! > and the FBI will open a can of whoop-ass on you. Now if they would get > their hands on the punk responsible for w32.klez for filling my mailbox > with hundreds of these silly things while I wasn't here. =p > > -- > Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net> We can hope for the future > But there might not be one > > * Turken thinks little kids are absolutely adorable... especialyy when > they're someone elses. > -- Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." Psalms 23:4
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