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

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, July 11, 2007 2:24 pm, John G Walker wrote:
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>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:16:48 +0100 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
> wrote:
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>> 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,


I am sure you could fix this with an ASBO now. If the bahaviour is
anti-social, and it is, then the courts would issue an ASBO and then the
person could even be banned from using a PC.

Sadly it would be rather difficult to enforce in the South Korean school
system.
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