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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!ip050.phx.primenet.com!info From: info@sundialservices.com (Sundial Services) Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.canadian,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,rec.sport.paintball,rec.arts.comics.misc,rec.motorcycles.harley,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.databases.paradox,rec.pets.dogs.misc,rec.arts.books.marketplace,rec.arts.movies.cur Subject: Re: A Public service Announcement ... Date: 1 Oct 1996 10:54:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Lines: 33 Message-ID: <info.4108.00F3874E@sundialservices.com> References: <52elor$4ic@dns2.inter.net.il> <52o0th$59@hawk.pix.za> <32507CC9.75B7@ix.netcom.com> <tool29-0110961117390001@max04-016.starnetinc.com> X-Posted-By: @198.68.46.50 (sundial) X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au rec.sport.football.canadian:27734 comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior:46244 rec.sport.paintball:51649 rec.arts.comics.misc:160782 rec.motorcycles.harley:60475 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28381 comp.databases.paradox:39536 rec.pets.dogs.misc:32469 rec.arts.books.marketplace:46352 As "tool" correctly points out in his/her post, Chain Mail schemes are mathematically impossible -- similar to the king whose advisor asked him to put one grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard, two on the second, four on the third and so forth. When the King realized that all the rice in his kingdom could not fill the chessboard, he lopped off the advisor's head. :-/ What is more to the point, however, is that chain-mail schemes are MAIL FRAUD, which is one of those things that you see underneath people's names in the Post Office. Logically, it follows that doing the same thing on the Internet is WIRE FRAUD, yet another thing you see in the Post. You can reasonably assume that, if not everything on the Internet is captured and at least filtered by, say, the NSA or the FBI, then it certainly could be and that a newsgroup posting (you doofus...) is effortless to capture -- and to pinpoint, even with "anon" servers, precisely to the computer in question. The fact that law-enforcement officers have not yet acted to curb this abuse, does not mean that they will not -- you take your time and you don't reveal your plans until the search-warrants are handed out at the door. I'll personally be glad to see the writeup in the paper. Absolutely no new laws need to be written in order to prosecute these a******s under existing telecommunications laws and treaties. And I wish they would get on with it. Not to mention that it's ineffective and a royal pain in the ass to everyone in the world. Go ahead, be a doofus to the world ... said the spider to the fly, as she sharpened up her pencil and winked the other eye.