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Does shifting the cost of millions of dollars every month on to other
businesses, individuals and governments qualify as "significant (heck,
even measurable) harm"? Yes.
Spam is VERY EXPENSIVE -- this document explains why...
http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?INW19980504S0003
Spam has also been defined, *in multiple court cases*, as "trespassing
upon a chattel", as denial of service attacks (from the flood of
bounces from the fake return addresses crippling third party servers,
)fraud and damaging business reputations (when spammers use fake
addresses to blame innocent 3rd party businesses), and as theft of
service. Do you consider trespassing, denial of service attacks,
fraud, damaging reputations, and stealing services ethical behavior?
"All that is needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do
nothing."
- -Edmond Burke
"Shut up and eat your spam"
- -Anonymous Spammer
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James D. Wilson, CCDA, MCP
"non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)
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From: Kevin Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 1:40 PM
To: James Wilson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: BLOCK: AT&T signs bulk hosting contract with spammers
At 07:40 -0800 11/1/00, James Wilson wrote:
>If any of you get services from AT&T you might want to start looking
for a
>more ethical carrier (if one exists) - AT&T has been caught red
handed
>hosting spammers and promising not to terminate their services.
You know, I don't like spammers any more than the next guy, but come
on. Unethical? we're not talking genocide and it's not like it
cause significant (heck, even measurable) harm.
- --
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting
victims of the darkness."
- -- Justice William O. Douglas
____________________________________________________________________
Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ#23758827
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