Spam with no purpose?

Tue Apr 6 02:51:24 UTC 2004

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Scott Call wrote:

: Kinda of makes you wonder if AP and the like could go after spammers
: habeaus style on copyright infringement.  Since the spam is a source of
: revenue, it could be construed as criminal copyright infringement as well
: as civil....

AP will face the same problem as Habeas:  tracing the spam backwards through
the open proxies and China hosting to get information about the real source.

RFG ran a honeypot open proxy network that collected information about
allegedly "real" proxy-rape spam sources, but he was DDoS'd to death by such
people, and then gave up on the effort [publicly?  who knows?].

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-- Todd Vierling <tv at duh.org> <tv at pobox.com>