[plug] OT: Perth SPAM

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Beau Kuiper wrote:
> 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

So, you cannot justify the professional advice that you gave.

Good.

Now we have that clarified.

-- 

Bret Busby

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"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 
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