First, I'd like to see this thread end, not due to the beetings, but due to the severity of the offtopic-ness of it :) BUT... see below. On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:22:02 +0700, "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net> said:
Not at all. You can terminate for actions prejudicial to the safety and security of the system. Has nothing to do with anti-trust.
I suspect that the spammer can find a lawyer who is willing to argue the idea that the "safety and security" of the AS701 backbone was not prejudiced by the spammer's actions, unless AS701 is able to show mtrg graphs and the like showing that the spammer was actually sending enough of a volume to swamp their core routers....
This is true. The 'security' or 'safety' of the backbone is not affected by: 1) portscaning by morons for openshares 2) spam mail sending 3) spam mail recieving (atleast not to my view, though I'm no lawyer, just a chemical engineer) So, the issue of termination for this reason isn't really valid. Hence the off-topic-ness of this thread. -Chris