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On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Scott Call wrote: : 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.... AP will face the same problem as Habeas: tracing the spam backwards through the open proxies and China hosting to get information about the real source. RFG ran a honeypot open proxy network that collected information about allegedly "real" proxy-rape spam sources, but he was DDoS'd to death by such people, and then gave up on the effort [publicly? who knows?]. -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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