[Mimedefang] Re: Lycos Screen saver that attacks Spammers, Ah more off topic...

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Ian Mitchell wrote:
> Honestly though, what can legislation do to prevent spamming? Ohio passed
> a nice little bill that provides prison time if you spam someone in Ohio.
> Oh hell, I guess this email can be considered Spam since it's off topic,
> and there's likely someone who lives in Ohio reading this now... Well, I
> guess I'll just have to live with the warrant.

Virginia has anti-spam laws too.  And there have been some long-time 
sentences already:

http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=134815&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=2&liChannelID=28&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1

I don't know about Ohio, but in Virginia the address needs to be forged, 
so you are on the safe side of the law at least in Virginia ;-)

> Honestly, I don't see Ohio
> having the ability to extradite someone from Bangladesh because they sent
> someone an email that the recipient didn't ask for. Can you see the state
> department for China now? "You wanna what? ummm... No."

Me neither.  But at least extradiction works inside US (between states), 
which is better than nothing.  Also, braking laws "remotely" isn't 
something to take easilly.  As soon as you leave your contry of origin, 
you must be carefull where you go.  Your government might not be willing 
to extradite you (and many countries have laws that prevent extradiction 
of its own citizens, US included).  But a foreign one couldn't care 
less.  Vacation in that nice tropical paradise?  Maybe not, too risky, 
they have extradiction agreement ;-)

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