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

[Adam Williams6]

>>So what if my perfectly normal message that I send with the intent of
>>actually sending mail, happens, in some way, to crash someones mail
>>server?  Am I a criminal?
>   Can you be held liable because their SysAdmin wasn't on the ball and
>keeping their server up to date? I think not! So, with that in mind, if they
>are laying down on the job, then why is a good email or test for spamming
>against the law? They would have to prove malicious intent. There was no

Maybe,  but in reality the "prove malicious intent" concept is bogus.  It 
still works perfectly for intimidation.  There are twelve corporate 
lawyers, here is me.  Regardless of proof they are more likely to win an 
argument, and I'm likely to be out cash either way.

>such thing. Zorb was simply looking to see if their site was compliant using
>established anti-spam practices.
>   I'm more willing to bet they are ticked because they were caught with
>their pants down and don't want to admit it. Classic case of "create more
>noise over there so people forget to look over here".

Actually this problem with the Lotus software has been known about 
*forever*.  Lotus bas been lying down on the job.

>   Besides, WHY did it take them 24 hours to restart the system? Seems like
>to me you just kill off the old process and restart a new one. Then again,
>they were probably using that "other" popular operating system and ended up
>having to reboot the machine. No doubt it probably caused it's own round of
>problems.
>   Gee, I like Qmail & Linux more and more everyday. As of last week,
>www.ordb.org said I was spam free!!!! Hmmm... I didn't crash either
>before, during or after the testing. I like that! :-)
>

I ordb (and others) check myself regularly.  So far I've never had a user 
notice anything was going on.  And I wouldn't have if I hadn't peeked in 
the maillogs while it was happening.

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