On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Duncan Frissell wrote:

At 07:30 AM 12/5/95 -0500, you wrote:

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sophomore Dominick LaScala was charged last week in federal court with two counts of computer fraud.

I thought fraud was obtaining something of value by false pretenses or uttering a false document or something. Doesn't sound like fraud to me.

I think they're referring to at least one of the accounts being obtained under false pretenses, and the From: lines (and probably Message-ID, Received, etc) being forged. Which would still be an interesting precedent, yes. -rich