[plug] OT: Perth SPAM

[Beau Kuiper]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Bret Busby wrote:

> Ah. So we have another qualified lawyer on the mailing list.
>
> You must be, giving legal advice (otherwise, that's an offence, isn't it, and,
> you could be liable for any wrong advice, couldn't you?).
>
> Where does the caller ID come into it? Fax machines are usually programmed
> (likewise with software), to either display, or, not display, the phone line
> number of the sending fax. Therefore, the number can be withheld.
>
> Also, tracing the call, if it is not done when the call is made, may be
> impossible, may it not? No doubt, being the qualified telecom technician that
> you obviously are (giving technical advice on the operations of telecom), you
> can explain how a call is traced, after the connection is terminated.
>
> And, what is the crime?
>
> Are crimes not different to misdemeanors (since you are giving (qualified?)
> legal advice)?
>
>   --
>
> Bret Busby
>
> ......................................
> "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
>  - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>  - Douglas Adams, 1988
> ......................................
>
>

Sometimes this list is like reading slashdot.org. Depressing, agonizing,
the feeling that the world has gone to hell, and that everyone is really
really stupid :-(

The internet seems to bring out the worst in people, I am glad I don't
have to live on it
Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au