Hi
11 Oct 2000, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> First, making something illegal has *never* stopped that something
>> from happening. Laws are not preventatives -- they are guidelines
>> which provide for punishment should you fail to follow the rules.
SH> By providing for punishments, laws tend to serve as preventatives,
SH> especially for crimes in which the offender stands a very high
SH> likelihood of getting caught.
How do you want to punish a criminal wirh AMERICAN laws, when he has
committed them in another country. (South Africa, Russia ...)
These countries have bigger problems than to search for and punish
SPAMmers!
>> ** Any government which would install Windows on it's naval warships
>> doesn't know snit about computers.
SH> They probably know better than to have Windows installed and running
SH> on computers containing classified data while they are accessing
SH> non-secure phone lines and other non-secure communications channels.
IMHO not ... Windows NT is classified by the American military as secure.
And even the fact that a windows crash made a big warship unuseable for
hours !!! didn't wake them up, so they will not wake up ...
>> ** Any agency of the gov't is, therefore, damned unlike to be able
>> to catch anyone doing anything!
SH> They could easily catch people if they wanted to. It all depends on
SH> whom we elect and whom the elected officials appoint to be in charge.
it does not only depend on america ...
there are some more countries than that one ... and as long as there is one
country where there are no laws against some internet deed, you can do it
as long as you want ...
>> Finally -- If a law were written precisely enough to actually have
>> some chance of controlling abusers of the system, and if the
>> regulations were written precisely enough to actually make it
>> possible to abide by the law, those very regulations would provide a
>> roadmap on how to circumvent them.
SH> This cannot happen if the law is well-written. Many laws are very
SH> poorly written. To solve this problem all we have to do is to elect
SH> better lawmakers.
How should an american law stop somebody sitting in russia from sending
spam ???
SH> All the best,
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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