From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 18 10:17: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F56937B404 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:16:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 69736 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2002 18:23:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.pt.com) (151.201.71.209) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2002 18:23:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: James Howard , swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Subject: Re: Natural stone tables Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:44:23 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: "Mike Meyer" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3F0E4612-249A-11D6-902B-003065BAAC62@well.com> In-Reply-To: <3F0E4612-249A-11D6-902B-003065BAAC62@well.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02021812442408.01558@proxy.pt.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday 18 February 2002 13:06, James Howard wrote: > > they'd go after them. I'm not sure what law/rull the spammers would be > > violating; I thought that's why the state laws where being made. I think > > I often argue that unsolicited email is theft of service. But this > would be easier to argue in Europe where they still pay per minute. Perhaps that time is returning to the US? I've seen a recent surge in the number of ISPs that are offering per-hour rates recently. It seems there are a whole lot of people who only use the internet for a few hours a month and think it's crazy to pay $25 for unlimited usage. When someone comes along and offers $5/month for up to 4 hours and $1 for each additional hour, it looks pretty promising. It's still theft of service ... especially if you're a large company paying for a high-speed connection, you could estimate what percentage of your connection is being tied up with spam and quote that $$$ figure in your complaint! -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message