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

[John Bridleman]

* Richard Zimmerman (richard@knbpower.com) wrote:
> > 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
> such thing. Zorb was simply looking to see if their site was compliant using
> established anti-spam practices.
> 

Can you be held liable for entering my house if I forgot to lock it?

>    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".

But by bringing charges they are admitting it.

>    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.

Their incompetence knows no bounds. ;-)

>    Oh well, back off to installing IMP.....
> 

Yea, I've got work to do also. 
Let's take this to advocacy if you want to reply.
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org