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- From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
- Subject: Re: Virus Programs 4 Sale (Virus, Trojans, etc)
- Message-ID: <C1H39n.4pJ@phage.cshl.org>
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
- References: <1k2k6pINNdng@digex.digex.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:58:35 GMT
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- I urge those who are angered by this message to send mail to
- postmaster@access.digex.com. I have done so. It is a very
- serious matter.
-
- Please realize that he was making a COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT,
- which is not permitted on the Internet in any case (because
- every site is charged to forward the ad, for the direct
- financial benefit of one selfish individual). Because of this
- we have a very strong case indeed against the poster.
-
- Had he announced the availability of the viruses for anonymous
- FTP on a machine he owned, or made them available by mail for
- copying costs only, I might feel slightly differently, as this
- would lie somewhere on the boundary between protection from
- bodily harm and censorship. But the commercial advertisement,
- being expressly forbidden on the Internet, is the last straw.
-
- -T
-
- --
- Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org
-
- Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.
-