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Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam...
From: Dean Anderson <dean () av8 com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 11:41:18 -0500
many respects, he is forging his identity and I cannot imagine that forgery is legal.
The ability to send anonymous email will probably remain protected. Also, the legal beagles I know tell me it is perfectly legal to use an alias as long as it is not done for fraudulent purposes. The issue of DoS vs. annoying selling methods comes down to intent. If there is no product, then one or more laws are being violated: Offering non-existant products for sale is a fraudulent activity. It is a federal offense if it involves interstate commerce. If it is intra-state, then usually only state laws apply. Intentional damage to a computer system engaged in interstate commerce is a federal offense. The FBI and/or the local police fraud unit should be able to help. Identifying the source of someone sending 30,000 messages a day for a week should be a doable task. --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean () av8 com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Current thread:
- Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Barry Shein (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Ravi Pina (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Dean Anderson (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Barry Shein (Jan 06)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Steve Noble (Jan 06)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Bradley Reynolds (Jan 06)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Jim Dixon (Jan 07)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Ravi Pina (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Eric Osborne (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... NetSurfer (Jan 05)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... J.D. Falk (Jan 07)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Adam Rothschild (Jan 07)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... J.D. Falk (Jan 09)
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... NetSurfer (Jan 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam... Dave Rand (Jan 05)