On Tue, 27 May 2003, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Dean writes: > > > Many countries have extradition treaties. > > For certain crimes. Spamming is not likely to qualify. > > > Perhaps you should look more closely. > > Why? It's spam. I can see you have a goal of limiting Type 1 spam, using the harms of Type 2 and Type 3 spam. This effort is doomed to fail. > > That they are free. > > But they _are_ free. Sorry. You are wrong. Only I get to set prices on my services. You don't get to tell others false prices. > > Telephone systems can also have open relay services > > configured, but it is well established that unuathorized > > use is toll fraud. > > I'm not aware of any similar jurisprudence having been established for the > Internet. Fraud is common law, which applies to the internet. After $5000, it becomes a federal felony. State laws have other requirements. --Dean