[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Giovanetti and Smith: Battle Creek should jail anti-spam activist

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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Date sent:      	Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:49:14 -0500
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From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:        	FC: Giovanetti and Smith: Battle Creek should jail anti-spam
 	activist
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"City of Battle Creek wants to imprison an anti-spam activist"
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From: Tom_Giovanetti/IPI@ipi.org
Subject: Re: FC: City of Battle Creek wants to imprison an anti-spam
activist To: declan@well.com Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:31:07 -0600

Bravo to the town of Battle Creek!

These anti-spammers purposely sabotage other people's property under
the guise of performing a public service. But they are attacking
someone else's property. No question in my mind it's a form of
vandalism.

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Tom Giovanetti
President
Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI)
www.ipi.org
tomg@ipi.org

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From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms@computerbytesman.com>
To: <declan@well.com>, <rms@computerbytesman.com>
Subject: RE: City of Battle Creek wants to imprison an anti-spam
activist Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:07:46 -0500

Hi Declan,

 >From everything I read about this case, I think it is appropriate
 for
law enforcement to get involved.  It appears that Ian Gulliver sent
specially crafted email messages to SMTP servers that he knew would
crash a certain percentage of them.  Looking for open relays is
certainly a legit. service.  Going around crashing people's computers
is quite another matter.  The ends do not justify the means.

Here is how Laura Atkins of SpamCon put it:

    http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article/0,,10_995251,00.html

    "Laura Atkins, newly installed president of the
    non-profit anti-spam outfit SpamCon Foundation,
    said the code changes needed to correct the bug
    was "trivial" but one Gulliver, for one reason or
    another, was unwilling to correct.

    "When you run a blacklist, you need to be responsible
    and you need to be considerate of the other servers,"
    she said. "The overall impression I'm getting is he
    knew the bug was there and he just decided he wasn't
    going to do anything. If his test happened to crash
    a Lotus server, then it wasn't his fault."

Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com

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