Adam Engst, the editor of TidBITS has become near and dear to my heart. He's suing a spammer . WorldTouch is an email address collection tool that visits WWW pages and records anything that looks like an email address. WorldTouch advertises using a database created in the same way. Allegedly WorldTouch uses false addresses that make the message appear to have come from other organisations or ISPs.
Mail relay is a common form of attack that has seen Australian mail servers targeted recently.
Make sure your SMTP server prohibits relay. It appears that these are the first proceedings under the Act, although a small settlement has been previously achieved. The matter is listed for hearing on 6 December 1999, and I look forward to a result. For more information, see the TidBITS site. Quick bytes You may recall that Larry Froistad was charged with murder after an online confession.