* Monique Y. Herman (spam@bounceswoosh.org) [031009 12:05]: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 17:36 GMT, ScruLoose penned: > > And if you really want to start annoying spammers, go do a google > > search on teergrubing. This likewise only applies if you're running > > your own mailserver. > > Okay, I keep seeing this term, so I finally did look it up. > > http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrube.en.html > > I wonder what the legal ramifications are, as well as wondering how > likely it would be that teergrubing would result in retaliation that > would saturate my bandwidth and make my ISP very unhappy with me (not to > mention rendering my net access unusable). > > I'm not sure how I feel about this sort of vigilante behavior. I'm not > saying I disapprove -- I'm saying I haven't decided. > > Anyone have opinions, thoughts, experiences they can share? Yeah. If you connect to my server, and my server is slow, you have 2 choices: (1) wait it out, or (2) bugger off. I don't see how this is could possibly be construed as vigilante behavior or have any legal ramfications. I didn't follow the link above; perhaps it has a different definition of teergrube than I'm familiar with. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." --President Thomas Jefferson
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