XS4ALL Wins Anti-Spam Suit

johnpc writes: "In a court case started by Dutch ISP XS4ALL, a judge ruled yesterday that spam outfit AbFab is forbidden to send spam to all subscribers of said ISP. The judge writes: 'The essential point is that XS4ALL has no legal conveyance obligation. (...) XS4ALL does not wish to convey messages which its customers have not asked to receive and therefore does not wish these messages to be delivered through its systems, in this case from Abfab. The question of whether the unsolicited sending of large volumes of advertising messages by e-mail should be referred to as 'spam' or 'electronic direct marketing' is not relevant to this dispute.' This is obviously not a solution to the spam problem within the Netherlands, but it is a step in the right direction. You can read an english abstract of the ruling. Unfortunately, most of the actual case documents are in dutch, some of which are still being translated."

Comments

Re:I have to laugh

[Dimensio]

If the law allowed for brutal public execution of spammers and people who knowingly contract spam run, I suspect that your spam load would drop significantly.

Re:The ruling is not about SPAM.

[tulare]

I went ahead and had a look at Hamibi's website, too, and had to laugh through my disgust.

"granted Intel an unprecedented preliminary injunction to ban me from sending informative and educational e-mail messages to Intel employees."

Yeah, right. I can just imagine his idea of "Educational and informative" now:

TO: staff@intel.com
FROM: eoiff30dn3@hotmail.com
SUBJECT: INCREASE YOUR PENIS SIZE NOW - NINE INCHES GUARIANTEED!!!!!!!

Hamibi Enterprises, a well known and medically respected pharmaceutical manufacturer announces a fantastic new brakesthru now - bring out the REAL you! Results GURANTEED!....
Got a couple of Shifmans in his family tree, I guess.

I'd LOVE to "Deal With It"

[Steve B]

Guess what? DEAL with it!

I am attempting to deal with spammers. Unfortunately, justice is thwarted by the law, so I cannot deal with spammers the way George Bush is dealing with al-Qaeda, but I get as close to that idea as I can.