"Person, Roderick" <perso...@upmc.edu> writes: > Kevin Kinsey <k...@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 -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
