Sure, but federal law does prevent you from repeatedly placing that request into my mailbox. I don't even need a sign for that. Making an http request does not

Sure, but federal law does prevent you from repeatedly placing that request into my mailbox. I don't even need a sign for that. Making an http request does not fit cleanly as an analogue to yelling from the street, nor does it fit as an analogue to throwing a written request on a brick through a window. It is something different that must be understood on its own terms.