I estimate that we have now collectively spent at least 23 * 100 =
2300 minutes on this in response to one very short annoying message,
which could easily have been deleted without comment by everyone with
a great saving of effort. (I believe it took me less that 3 seconds
to delete the offending message;-)...
I realize that the general topic of spam control is a legitimate issue
for discussion here, so I am not particularly upset about this use of
our time and effort in these lists. I think we all understand the
issues better now;-)...
As for the legal aspects, I believe that under the (nifty) new law,
the sender in this case is the only guilty party, and that the
LISTSERVE was in no way guilty. The person that posted the message to
the list serve knew what they were doing and obviously did it
willingly and intentionally with the motive of subverting the intended
purpose of the lists.
Do we really need to worry about such things trapping a listserve
operator into a prison term?
I do not want to now subvert this list into a legal discussion. Where
should those who care go to participate and learn more about this
aspect of the legal issues? Please note that I rigged the TO address
to make it hard to respond to the list with a simple reply;-)...
Cheers...\Stef
Date: Size: From: Subject:
02/05 2105 Jim Conklin Restricting the list
02/05 2226 Ned Freed Re: Restricting the list
02/05 3558 "Donald E. Eastla Re: Restricting the list
02/06 2741 "John W. Noerenbe Re: Restricting the list
02/06 1945 Nathaniel Borenst PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/06 2896 Nathaniel Borenst Re: Restricting the list
02/06 3178 Ben Nowlin Re: Restricting the list
02/06 7781 Ned Freed Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/06 2040 Ned Freed Re: Restricting the list
02/07 2684 Dave Crocker Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/08 3549 Tim Kehres Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/07 2636 "John W. Noerenbe Re: Restricting the list
02/07 1675 "Donald E. Eastla Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/07 4851 Ned Freed Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/07 2615 "John W. Noerenbe Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/07 2409 Dave Crocker Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/08 3148 "John W. Noerenbe Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/08 2182 Robert Moskowitz Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/08 2228 Robert Moskowitz Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/08 5698 Dave Crocker Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/08 6384 Ned Freed Re: PS -- Re: Restricting the list
02/10 1759 keld(_at_)dkuug(_dot_)dk Re: Restricting the list