>At 7:48 pm +0100 4/8/97, Richard Pouncy wrote:
>
>>Yes, I have been fighting this type of shit for sometime now. What they
>>are doing is bounding the mail off sites like earthlink or at&t
>>to delivery the mail to your system.
>
>So rather than send the spam themselves, they relay it through another
>(innocent) service provider's machine and make that machine do all the hard
>work for them clogging up their mail queues.
>
>This basically amounts to theft of services - CPU time and bandwidth.
>
>Mike Wright,
>Network Support, Phone 0171 269 3618.
No doubt about it. It is theft of services. I talked with our
university lawyer yesterday after I caught some spammer relaying 2248
messages through one of my systems clogging up the queue and causing a
delay which amounts to a denial of service. I was told by our lawyer
that we can go after them to the fullest extent of both state and federal
law for theft of sevices.
And I fully intend to have a few words with the idiots in question
as well as their ISP. I'll let them get away with it once but if it
happens again ............
Chris J.
NU
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