Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:25:25 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Person\, Roderick" <personrp@UPMC.EDU> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: spamassassin helps lots, but I'm tired of sorting the backscatter ; -) Message-ID: <86y6uzj396.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <1AE59099C6D80E41BEB64A1768AFB4EA0A690427@msxmbxnsprd18.acct.upmchs.net> (Roderick Person's message of "Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:56:51 -0400") References: <49C3F051.9010501@daleco.biz> <1AE59099C6D80E41BEB64A1768AFB4EA0A690427@msxmbxnsprd18.acct.upmchs.net>
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"Person, Roderick" <personrp@UPMC.EDU> writes: > Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> writes: > > Anybody got a good way to send an automagic Ping'o'death to a > > spammer's computer? > I recall years ago into looking into this and was told it was illegal > to do such a thing in response to a spammer, but it was ok for them to > spam me. That never made sense to me, but I stop trying to figure it > out. It *is* illegal, and for good cause. It's called vigilantism. As for the legality of spam - almost all spam these days is either fraud, advertising for illegal and / or fake medication, or both, and almost all of it is sent from hijacked computers. That makes spam doubly illegal: 1) illegal intrusion into a computer system for the purpose of committing 2) wire fraud and / or trading in illegal substances. IANAL, though, and I don't even play one on TV. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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