Oddly enough I am in possession of 20+ fee samples that were the left overs from a hand out, and I was cleaning up the place. pretty sure I did not break any laws. I know that isn't what you meant, but it is what you said. One of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com> wrote: the tricky parts about law is defining it. If you can't define it, it is really hard to make it illegal.

It's called "gaming the system". While not expressly illegal (IANAL), it damned well should be. - - ferg p.s. I realize that "closing the loop" on this behavior could be result in more badness, and in fact a certain "tragedy of the commons". This is where we find ourselves, apparently. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGwUixq1pz9mNUZTMRArm8AKDPqGvx25L9ZcsypwA4rQ7uoS+hHwCeO0A7 XuP7TEUbDQWzxrPxJamK9cc= =8sf9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/