how technically knowledgeable is he? well, in a scale of 1 to 10 he's 1.5 I may say. I already cut down the list to 60,000 out of a peaked 120,000 and from what I see, this saturday the list might become a small 20,000 (without them knowin of course) but still, the whole idea of administring a spam sending server.

as for the law, we are not in the US, and where we are, online laws do not exist, so I couldn't count on that.