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It's the equivalent of a DDOS to an email server. And yes it's abuse.
by binarymax 15y ago
It's the equivalent of a DDOS to an email server. And yes it's abuse.
- jrockway 15y agoWhat happened in this case is something like the EFF's form for emailing your representatives when there's some important bill that's up for voting. The EFF makes their members aware of that fact and then the individual members send email to their Congress-critters. That's not a DoS, though, that's "a lot of people with the same thing to say". In this case, it seems like a bunch of employees were all upset about the same issue, and they all emailed the same person about it. The court ruled this a computer crime.
- binarymax 15y agoYes, See my response above to saulrh about intent. If they were encouraged to each send one message to petition, it should be legal. If they were encouraged to bombard with more than one message it's probably abuse.