From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 06:10:54 +0800
To: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography
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On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, zinc wrote:

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> regarding this paper;  it's sent out by an autoresponder.  is it illegal 
> to make excessive use of the autoresponder?  this would be a type of 
> denial of service attack.
>
> 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?

Regardless of the legal merits, this would be called "being an asshole." 
The guy who runs mailback.com is just another common carrier. 

- -rich
 http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~llurch/

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