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You're right of course.The US being the only moral authority in the world
enforces its laws everywhere.Witness the Helms-Burton extraterritorial
bullshit.Your brilliant analogy of spam to a letter bomb shrieks of random
acts of kindness.You must be the holder of a US Ph.D in logic.
-- 
Jean Louis Richer

Victoria Lee <hax...@scican.net> wrote in article
<331EE2...@scican.net>...
> Spamming, mailbombing (via the Internet), harassment, pyramid schemes,
> and chain letters are illegal in the U.S.  Most, if not all, break
> Federal laws.  If they originate outside of the U.S. does that suddenly
> make them legal and the one sending them not liable or is it just
> extremely inconvenient to pursue the matter?  Ian since you seem to be
> such an expert on international law and its applications within each
> country perhaps you could enlighten us?
> 
> A comparison that might help: If an _______ (fill in the blank with
> country) citizen sent a mail bomb to another country and it exploded and
> killed someone do you actually think that no crime would have been
> committed because the bomb originated and was sent in another country
> and the country of origin did not have laws specifically prohibiting the
> sending of mail bombs? 
> 
> I suspect that rather than assuming you're a 100% safe from U.S.
> jurisdiction you might want to check extradition treaties of your
> country to make sure, before you break American laws via the Internet. 
> While spamming is not likely to get much federal attention bilking
> hundreds or thousands of U.S. citizens out of large sums of money might
> be another matter.
> -- 
> Lee - Indiana - Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.
>