On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Michel Py wrote:
Todd Vierling wrote: This has already happened; there is some well known spam that consists of HTML "content" or an image-based ad, with snippets of recent AP newswire stories in the plaintext body section.
Indeed, and between AP newswire, good random generators and quotations borrowed from the zillion pages of text available on the web, it's going to take a really, really smart software to make the difference between spam and real email.
Kinda of makes you wonder if AP and the like could go after spammers habeaus style on copyright infringement. Since the spam is a source of revenue, it could be construed as criminal copyright infringement as well as civil.... -S -- Scott Call Router Geek, ATGi, home of $6.95 Prime Rib I make the world a better place, I boycott Wal-Mart VoIP incoming: +1 360-382-1814