On Mon, 26 May 2003 18:53:12 PDT, Peter Deutsch said:
The case we prosecuted turned out to be a small group of kids breaking
into compute hosts, but from what I was told I would think you should be
able to use the same provision against spam relayers, since the key
element was the unauthorized use of compute cycles, not what they did
with the cycles.
IANAL by any means, but I suspect that the owner of an open relay would have
a hard time demonstrating unauthorized use of cycles to relay mail *through
an open relay*. Now if the spammer actively *bypassed* a security feature
in order to relay the mail, that would be different, as it would indicate
that they knew it was unauthorized...
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