[KLUG Advocacy] Re: [KLUG Members] Fwd: FC: City of Battle Creek wants to imprison an anti-spam activist

[Adam Williams6]

>>But a mail server isn't a case of trespass waiting to happen. The prseumption 
>>here is that you can use the server to pass mail on to intended recipents that 
>>ou believe are going to get your messages. There are laws on the books that 
>>you're violating by "abusing" that server, but failure in normal use is not
>>considered abuse.
>So, what he was doing was normal use? I'm not familiar with what he was sending to the mail servers to test them. My guess is that it was far from "normal use" otherwise this problem would have shown itself before now.

I don't think most non-techies would consider mail-probes normal use.  I 
do.

>I'm not familiar with his procedures. What prompted him to check their server?  Did it have to be submitted to a queue?

Once has to enter an IP at the site.  Anyone can check any IP.

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