>>IMO, I prefer not to participate in illegal activities >Admirable position, but what's illegal? How is making HTTP requests to a >public HTTP service illegal? These websites are spamming Internet with >billions of messages containing links to their HTTP servers so we can >connect to them. Perfectly legal to connect to them.
Except that the intent is not to connect to them to view their website or do business with them. There is a specific intent here to use up their bandwidth, forcing their costs of doing business higher, with no intent to do business with them. This is most definitely a punishable offense in a court of law. Your argument could be used to justify spamming, or virus writing, etc. Vigilante practices are loathsome and there is a definite intent in the law to protect everyone from vigilantes. I hate spam too, but lowering ourselves to their base level - using unethical network practices - is not the way... Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:00 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Lycos screensaver tackles spam websites >IMO, I prefer not to participate in illegal activities Admirable position, but what's illegal? How is making HTTP requests to a public HTTP service illegal? These websites are spamming Internet with billions of messages containing links to their HTTP servers so we can connect to them. Perfectly legal to connect to them. You're a paying victim (loss of $$$ + your time to buy/maintain anti-spam defenses, loss of bandwidth and other resources) of bogus/bad-faith/cracker activities (spamming/virus/ratware) as these websites targeted by the Lycos screensaver pay spammers to DDoS your MXs. You cannot appeal to any national/international law/law-enforcers to stop that abuse of your MXs. The multi $billion network operators world-wide who permit their networks to attack your MXs refuse to police their own networks, their bottom lines be sacred, your MXs be damned. The Lycos screensaver is very clearly vigilante "law" enforcement, reflecting the spammers' DDoS of us back onto a DDoS of the spamvertizers. There are no laws or illegality involved. Len _____________________________________________________________________ http://IMGate.MEIway.com : free anti-spam gateway, runs on 1000's of sites To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
