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Class Action Lawsuit Against Spammer
sfjoe writes "California-based spammer eTracks is being sued by the law firm, Morrison and Foerster (who have a very cool homepage). M & F's press release says they are "...seeking other relief, including attorneys' fees and statutorily authorized damages of $50 for each email delivered in violation of the law, up to $25,000 per day".
California's anti-spam law has already held up under appeals court scrutiny so this may very well be a major setback to the spam industry."
I think spammers should be forced to pay by donating an organ for each
forged header.
Why is spam such a big deal? Why do Slashdotters go hog-wild and advocate violence against spammers, whose profession's name cannot be typed without heaps of disdain?
They're just trying to make money, and it's really not that hard to delete the stuff. As annoying as it might be (although I guess I must just be better at dealing with my anger than most of the folks here), there's nothing to indicate to me that it's illegal. Why in the world should it be illegal? This is the same Slashdot that seems to hate the idea of the government having any sort of regulatory hand in the internet at all, now clamoring for the government's legal protection from some emails?
As soon as we start allowing the government to regulate commercial email, other, less welcome regulations are sure to follow, in the ostensible interest of national security, or justice, or any of the other stock government facades.
Get a grip, guys. Police ourselves, or we will find ourselves being policed, and we won't like it.
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Since when is spam forced on you? Nobody forced you to get internet access or an e-mail accounts, and nobody forces you to read spam either. You can look at the headers and delete the message without reading the body. You can even write a program to delete mail automatically that doesn't come from a known address. There are lots of ways to deal with spam without nullifying the First Amendment which is what you lot have done.
You must be a troll but everyone knows that windows 2000 has a far lower TCO for a single server than linux, think about it bonehead.