On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:50:21 -0600, anarkissed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > i have a little freeware utility called "BounceSpam v1.8" which is > lovely. It creates a fake "bounce" message complaining that the address is > invalid. <snip> If I were to forge an email message so as to make it appear to have originated from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to complain to the sender of an email that user: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not known to the server, then I could conceivably get into trouble for this. I don't think my ISP would like it at all if I were sending out messages from my computer that I had forged so as to make them to appear to have originated from one of the machines owned and operated by the ISP. Shentel would probably terminate my account for violating their terms of service agreement. There would be nothing I could do about the problem unless I would get a lawyer. In Virginia there is a new law which treats faked email messages the same as though they were real forgeries of real documents. Of course almost any defendant charged under such a stupid law could easily get off, but he might need to hire an expensive lawyer. Maybe the reason why there are no efforts being made to enforce this law is that almost anybody can get away with violating it because such cases would be so difficult to prove. Thanks for the suggestion. It is certainly worth a thought. Before trying out the program I think I should first look into the legality of using such a program in my state. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
