Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:09:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First SPAM prosecution in Washington State Message-ID: <19981028170912.Y25247@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810272221170.805-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 10:29:17PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810272221170.805-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Tuesday, 27 October 1998 at 22:29:17 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > The Project.Manager email is curious. It states compliance with new bill > (not law) of some unknown governing authority's unknown law book. I smell > HOAX all over it. I don't know if I'd call it a hoax. It looks more like a forgery to me. > It reminded me of something though. > > The State of Washington is prosecuting a spammer under our new anti-spam > law. The penalty can be as much as 2,000 USD per email sent. > > One of the items needed is a legitimate return email adress. Let me ask > you, Is Project.Manager@freebsd.org a legitimate address? (I really doubt > it but must ask.) No, of course not. > If not, then this spammer might be prosecuted under Washington State Law. > This would be interesting to see how our law handles "mailing lists". > Since I am a resident of Washington, every single spammer who hits > FreeBSD-whatever could face charges. Go for it. I was considering trying to determine whether they were their own ISP, but I haven't got round to it. Look carefully at the headers. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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