[pchelpers] Re: News:Spamhaus names and shames world's most prolific spammers 5:29PM

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 7:56:13 PM, you wrote:
> 
> JD>> Probably the hard part is proving that they control one or more
> JD>> botnets.
> 
> JD> There's a simple way to do that. Turn off all their machines, and
> JD> see what the bot nets do while watching the effect on spam levels.
> JD> Preferably, use the machines to deactivate those things before
> JD> turning the systems off.
> 
> If don't have proof that they control botnets, then may not have
> enough for a search warrant allowing that to be done. 
Is that the catch 22 clause?

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