On Feb 6, 16:44, Adam Shostack sent the following to the NSA's mail archives:
Subject: Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography || zinc wrote: || || | i'm wondering if i set up a cron job to request a copy every 5 or 10 || | minutes and just send it to /dev/nul, could i get in more trouble than || | say, someone just telling me to cut it out? || || I think that they would try to press charges under the precedent that || a guys modem auto-dialing Jerry Falwell's number was forced to make || restitution. (Forget the reference, sorry.) || || The important difference is that they probably are not being billed on || a per transaction basis, whereas 800 numbers are billed per call. || Would they sue? Can you sell a jury on the essential difference being || that they were not billed per copy mailed? I'd expect that they'd || react with a 'cut it out' message first. ||
And then they would, of course, use the inflated "hit" count as proof positive that the Internet citizenry is on their side! -- ========================================================================== David J. Bianco | Web Wonders, Online Oddities, Cool Stuff iTribe, Inc. | Phone: (804) 446-9060 Fax: (804) 446-9061 Suite 1700, World Trade Center | email: <bianco@itribe.net> Norfolk, VA 23510 | URL : http://www.itribe.net/~bianco/