Newsflash: usenet is not under your control. People can give you more info than you asked for, or less, or none at all. Or even answer questions you didn't think of.
You implied it with the comment "Perfectly legal... as if that mattered".
To any casual reader that would suggest you didn't care if it was legal or not. . If you want to avoid being misconstrued, write more clearly. For example "I don't need it because the hotspots in question are all open-access with no restrictions. Thus its perfectly legal."