At 2:40 PM -0700 4/3/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> Is it okay to forge a From to an email account that I own, even if I
know that it's going to be shut down for spamming as soon as those
two million messages I just sent out start bouncing?
Is it forgery to use a return address of a hotel room that you know
you are going to vacate the day after tomorrow?
I assume not. Which is my point. It doesn't seem to me that
anti-forgery laws would have any significant impact on spam. Whether
or not I agree with your assertion that most spammers don't forge
now--it's clear that forging addresses is not necessary.
--
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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