[Gllug] A few words on the topic of stock spam

[John G Walker]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:16:48 +0100 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
wrote:

> The law is quite well-equipped for dealing with questions of intent
> and degree.  It is quite reasonable to let a judge decide that sending
> 50 emails to invite your friends to a party once in a while is not
> spam.  Whereas sending 10,000 emails, repeatedly, even when people
> have asked you to stop, is spam.

Quite right. But there's then a question, resulting from the spammers'
use of hijacked PCs, of *who* is doing the spamming - the owner of the
PC or the sinister forces controlling the machine? It's this ambiguity
that creates the difficulties in prosecuting spammers - and allows
spammers legal loopholes to crawl through,

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 All the best,
 John
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