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trost@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Bill Trost) writes:

Someone did to a bunch of sites around the world what FidoNet called 
a "bombing run": using the maps to hit a bunch of sites with information 
that the receiving sites hadn't asked for.  I edited this message from
one angry SysAdmin quite a bit, but I thought it was interesting to see
a message from the Netherlands that seemed somewhat relevant.  I know
that at least one of the Scandinavian countries has pretty tight
restrictions on databases too ...

Edited Message follows:

From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.admin.misc

> I'm not too familiar with US law concerning the gathering of
> addresses, but it is illegal to have such a database in my country.
> (I mean, you can have any database you want, but you must register
> that fact and than there are some rules about having to
> consent to being in the database, government exempted as always).

Jeeze, there goes my Christmas list!   :-)

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