You mentioned that no companies declared a loss or claimed insurance from Melissa. Doesen't the govt need to show a loss? I'm suprised the defence didn't ask for habius corpus (sic, I know). I have not seen action against spammers (or junk mail for that matter.) All Melissa did was create a lot of unwanted traffic. Enough to shut some companies down, but where do we draw the line? If I sent an advertisement out that pushed a fragile server over the edge, would that count as fraud? What if I sent so much bulk "snail mail" that it effected the delivery of personal mail?

Before everyone flames me, I am well aware of the chaos that Melissa caused. I don't need a hundred bozo's telling me about it. I am just trying to make the point that if no compnay demonstrated a loss, can there be a crime?

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