If I can gain an advantage by getting others to follow phony rules, good for me, but I'm not bound by them.
Note that this is significantly different than treaties, which are between specific countries, and spell out specific remedies, the ultimate being the offended party withdrawing from the treaty (or war).
just take an enumeration, which is all that the Constitution allows, anyway. ("The actual Enumeration shall be made... within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct...counting the whole number of persons in each State...")
Without the need to gather all that other illegal crap ("How many toilets in your household?"), a census take needs little more than a cheap handheld clicker.
Unlike ORDB, they are not "intentionally causing damage." ORDB has apparently made a change with full knowledge and with the intention to disrupt email.
especially since what they are doing is a felony in the US.
18 U.S.C. 1030 - Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers reads in part:
Whoever... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer...shall be punished...[T]he term "protected computer" means a computer... which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communications, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States...The term 'damage' means any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information...
...and that is exactly what ORDB is doing, intentionally causing the transmission of information which results in intentional impairment to the availability of information.
"Under the common law and many statutes, an intent to take money or property to which one is not lawfully entitled must exist at the time of the threat in order to establish extortion...A person who acts under a claim of right (an honest belief that he or she has a right to the money or property taken) may allege this factor as an Affirmative Defense to an extortion charge. What constitutes a valid claim of right defense may vary from one jurisdiction to another. For example, M, a department store manager, accuses C, a customer, of stealing certain merchandise. M threatens to have C arrested for Larceny unless C compensates M for the full value of the item. In some jurisdictions it is only necessary for M to prove that he or she had an honest belief that C took the merchandise in order for M to avoid an extortion conviction. Other jurisdictions apply a stricter test, under which M's belief must be based upon circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that C took the item. Another, more stringent, test requires that C in fact owe the money to M."
If by putting fake header in an email, you're filling my email inbox, you're causing me damage, both in terms of stolen resources (you are consuming both bandwidth and storage space, both of which I pay for), and my own time in sorting through the chaff. You owe me for my costs, both in actual dollars and in time and effort. You can choose pay me a reasonable fee to cover my costs and efforts, or I'll let the government show you why you shouldn't have done it in the first place.
BTW, don't assume that law is the same as ethics. There are a lot illegal actions which are perfectly ethical, and vice versa. I choose ethics over law (which, at least in the US, has little meaning).
think about it - the CAN SPAM act makes it a felony for commercial enterprises to "materially falsifi[y] header information," which is EXACTLY what the bozos who cause this problem are doing.
If I owned the domain, I'd be contacting every commercial enterprise who's email got bounced to me, and letting them know that for a nominal fee, they could avoid my getting the feds to take notice of their illegal activities.
that artificial intelligence actually exists, or that an SMTP server has a human routing the mail?
The messages being sent to donotreply.com are being _bounced_ automatically because of some problem, such as having been sent to a misspelled (nonexistent) email address.
"they" (the originator) didn't send them to the donotreply.com domain owner. They sent them to some misspelled or otherwise bad address at some _other_ domain, which bounced them to donotreply.com.
Now, it is their own fault that this happened, but it is not correct to say that they sent them to donotreply.com.
donotreply.invalid or example.com. These are reserved for just this sort of thing by RFC 2606.
In a similar manner, people wanting fake IP addresses to use for documentation, training, etc., should use addresses in the 192.0.2.0/24 range, which is reserved by RFC 3330.
So, what's your point? PAIX is in Vienna, too. Equinix is in Ashburn, 10 miles away.
You brain, clouded with pedantic thoughts, completely missed the point - they're running one end of their link to McLean because it's close to a lot of peering.
The government can also redefine the mile to be 4000 feet, immediately increasing everyone's gas mileage. That's a perfect parallel, equally wrong, and just as stupid as "daylight saving time."
there's little difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. They're both intent on maintaining and building government power. It's only their _priorities_ which are different. Ultimately, they're for the same end result. That's the great scam - they stay in power by making the plebes think they have some sort of say in their destiny.
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And this differs from other religions.......how?
They believe in curves, too.
No, but they're encouraged to worship the virgin Mary and saints, and many seem to find faith in strange icons.
My bad. I forgot, this is /. I'm supposed to comment on the comments, not the article.
Microsoft integrating a browser with the OS = bad.
/. loves to Microsoft bash, but this demands a loud "WTF?"
Mozilla integrating a browser with the OS = good.
I know
thank god.
If I can gain an advantage by getting others to follow phony rules, good for me, but I'm not bound by them.
Note that this is significantly different than treaties, which are between specific countries, and spell out specific remedies, the ultimate being the offended party withdrawing from the treaty (or war).
just take an enumeration, which is all that the Constitution allows, anyway. ("The actual Enumeration shall be made ... within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct...counting the whole number of persons in each State...")
Without the need to gather all that other illegal crap ("How many toilets in your household?"), a census take needs little more than a cheap handheld clicker.
Unlike ORDB, they are not "intentionally causing damage." ORDB has apparently made a change with full knowledge and with the intention to disrupt email.
18 U.S.C. 1030 - Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers reads in part:...and that is exactly what ORDB is doing, intentionally causing the transmission of information which results in intentional impairment to the availability of information.
it's "free, as in speech," not "free, as in beer."
If they are arrested now, they can (and likely would be) pardoned.
Much better to wait a year, when a new administration is in office, and then go after the lawbreakers.
A proper response would have been "What happened to donotreply@example.com" or "...donotreply@companydomain.invalid".
If by putting fake header in an email, you're filling my email inbox, you're causing me damage, both in terms of stolen resources (you are consuming both bandwidth and storage space, both of which I pay for), and my own time in sorting through the chaff. You owe me for my costs, both in actual dollars and in time and effort. You can choose pay me a reasonable fee to cover my costs and efforts, or I'll let the government show you why you shouldn't have done it in the first place.
BTW, don't assume that law is the same as ethics. There are a lot illegal actions which are perfectly ethical, and vice versa. I choose ethics over law (which, at least in the US, has little meaning).
think about it - the CAN SPAM act makes it a felony for commercial enterprises to "materially falsifi[y] header information," which is EXACTLY what the bozos who cause this problem are doing.
If I owned the domain, I'd be contacting every commercial enterprise who's email got bounced to me, and letting them know that for a nominal fee, they could avoid my getting the feds to take notice of their illegal activities.
that artificial intelligence actually exists, or that an SMTP server has a human routing the mail?
The messages being sent to donotreply.com are being _bounced_ automatically because of some problem, such as having been sent to a misspelled (nonexistent) email address.
"they" (the originator) didn't send them to the donotreply.com domain owner. They sent them to some misspelled or otherwise bad address at some _other_ domain, which bounced them to donotreply.com.
Now, it is their own fault that this happened, but it is not correct to say that they sent them to donotreply.com.
donotreply.invalid or example.com. These are reserved for just this sort of thing by RFC 2606.
In a similar manner, people wanting fake IP addresses to use for documentation, training, etc., should use addresses in the 192.0.2.0/24 range, which is reserved by RFC 3330.
when his Google bot clicked the link?
Why, or why not?
No, their position is that government should play no role in sending men into space. Feel free to do it by private effort, if you want.
So, what's your point?
PAIX is in Vienna, too. Equinix is in Ashburn, 10 miles away.
You brain, clouded with pedantic thoughts, completely missed the point - they're running one end of their link to McLean because it's close to a lot of peering.
McLean is right next to Vienna, center of the MAE East Internet Exchange Point.
like this?
that personifies "clueless."
The government can also redefine the mile to be 4000 feet, immediately increasing everyone's gas mileage. That's a perfect parallel, equally wrong, and just as stupid as "daylight saving time."
there's little difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. They're both intent on maintaining and building government power. It's only their _priorities_ which are different. Ultimately, they're for the same end result. That's the great scam - they stay in power by making the plebes think they have some sort of say in their destiny.