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Working for one of the largest ISP's in North America, we have received our share of complaints regarding this message from the attorney on behalf of Samsung. I have also contacted the attorney and was told that they did not send the message and that they are investigating. All I know, is that this message has caused alot of problems. >Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 15:18:44 -0400 >From: [email protected] (Dana Hudes) >Organization: Graphnet Inc. >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) >To: [email protected] >CC: [email protected] >Subject: Samsung >Sender: [email protected] > >Sir: >Spamming as normally practiced involves the theft of services >through the use of one or more third party's mail servers to send >the spam on behalf of the spammer. Should Graphnet, an >FCC-licensed carrier, in reviewing its message logs from months >of spamming which we have finally ended through technical means, >find that your clients have directly or through the contracted >services of a third-party bulk e-mail service used our systems >without permission we will most assuredly seek heavy damages as >permitted under laws of Interstate Commerce and also to ask the >FCC to sanction Samsung and its subsidiaries. > >As any first-year law student knows, the First Amendment does not >cover illegal acts. One cannot yell 'fire' in a crowded theater >nor can one incite to riot. Use of one's own mail system to >individually deliver unsolicited commercial messages to e-mail >boxes is arguable; hijacking systems that don't belong to one, is >theft of services. Impersonating the system you are stealing >services from, over Interstate telephone lines (which as all know >is what the Internet runs over) is wire fraud. > >Every criminal is entitled to counsel. That is the basis of the >American system of Jurisprudence. Threatening the operators of >the Internet is not a smart move, it just raises the profile of >your client and ensures its bad name. You have, with your letter, >lumped Samsung in with the sleaziest of pornographers. They >should discharge you for incompetence. > >Dana Hudes >Manager, Internet Engineering >Graphnet >p.s. Samsung is officially on my black-list as of this moment. As >you can imagine, Graphnet buys lots and lots of electronic gear. >No more Samsung for us. > > > >
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