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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Spam with no purpose?
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Michel Py wrote: > > Todd Vierling wrote: > > This has already happened; there is some well known spam that > > consists of HTML "content" or an image-based ad, with snippets > > of recent AP newswire stories in the plaintext body section. > > Indeed, and between AP newswire, good random generators and quotations > borrowed from the zillion pages of text available on the web, it's going > to take a really, really smart software to make the difference between > spam and real email. > Kinda of makes you wonder if AP and the like could go after spammers habeaus style on copyright infringement. Since the spam is a source of revenue, it could be construed as criminal copyright infringement as well as civil.... -S -- Scott Call Router Geek, ATGi, home of $6.95 Prime Rib I make the world a better place, I boycott Wal-Mart VoIP incoming: +1 360-382-1814
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