From: Tom Acree <tom@halcyon.com>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [news.admin.net-abuse.email] Spam with chili (threats)
Date: 26 Apr 1997 18:34:04 -0700

Subject: Re: Spam with chili (threats) 
From: abuse@erols.com (Terms of Service)
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email

Some spammer included the following in his junk:

>P.S.
>Contrary to what you may have heard, there are NO laws 
>against unsolicited Email. There are however LAWS AGAINST 
>Blacklisting, Hate Mail, Threatening Or Interfering With 
>Or Causing Harm To An Individual Or Company Business. 
>WE WILL PROSECUTE TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW ANYONE 
>WHO ENGAGES IN THIS FORM OF MALICIOUS AND ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR!

	Woo!

	He's right.  It's not illegal.  However, there was a binding
contract between him and us, and sending out junk mail is a violation of
that contract.  Heh heh heh...

	Of course, his account is now a smoking crater...