The key word there is affecting interstate commerce. Moreover, something need not be commercial in and of itself to affect commerce. You'd be surprised how far the courts and Congress have stretched the English language to serve their purposes. Not only is it likely that you are using mail servers in an interstate manner, but courts can look at the aggregate impact of intrastate activity akin to yours and decide that it could impact interstate activity collectively. For instance, they could say that thousands of users like you, acting solely within their own state have an aggregate affect on interstate commerce.
That said, so long as you're not harming/annoying anyone (e.g. the use who spoofs his friends with yourmom@thebomb.com), you probably don't have to worry about someone cracking down on your activities.
*Please be advised that the afore mentioned comments are not intended to represent legal advice, nor am I qualified to give any in this area, contrary to the implications of my nick.
Actually, there are diminishing marginal returns on the value of college degrees in China since there is a high-end job shortage. It is already the case that many students can't garner jobs comensurate with their degrees. Adding more students with degrees will only lower their expected value. Given that in the short-run, the demand for high-end labor is essentially fixed, there is a fixed amount of "value" so to speak for college degrees. Adding degrees, like printing more paper money, only lowers the expected value of a degree. China's problem is not a lack of higher education, it's a lack of high-end industry demand for advanced degrees. Hence the printing money analogy is pretty good.
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The key word there is affecting interstate commerce. Moreover, something need not be commercial in and of itself to affect commerce. You'd be surprised how far the courts and Congress have stretched the English language to serve their purposes. Not only is it likely that you are using mail servers in an interstate manner, but courts can look at the aggregate impact of intrastate activity akin to yours and decide that it could impact interstate activity collectively. For instance, they could say that thousands of users like you, acting solely within their own state have an aggregate affect on interstate commerce.
That said, so long as you're not harming/annoying anyone (e.g. the use who spoofs his friends with yourmom@thebomb.com), you probably don't have to worry about someone cracking down on your activities.
*Please be advised that the afore mentioned comments are not intended to represent legal advice, nor am I qualified to give any in this area, contrary to the implications of my nick.
Actually, there are diminishing marginal returns on the value of college degrees in China since there is a high-end job shortage. It is already the case that many students can't garner jobs comensurate with their degrees. Adding more students with degrees will only lower their expected value. Given that in the short-run, the demand for high-end labor is essentially fixed, there is a fixed amount of "value" so to speak for college degrees. Adding degrees, like printing more paper money, only lowers the expected value of a degree. China's problem is not a lack of higher education, it's a lack of high-end industry demand for advanced degrees. Hence the printing money analogy is pretty good.