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4th Circuit Court Sides With a Spammer
bulled writes to tell us about coverage on CNet regarding a ruling a couple of weeks back that allows a spamming company to procede with their suit against a spamfighter. The 4th Circuit court ruled that the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act, much derided here, trumps the Oklahoma law under which anti-spam activist Mark Mumma sued Omega World Travel for spamming him. The ruling allows Omega World Travel's countersuit, for defamation, to go forward. From the article: "'There's been a lot of activity in the states to pass laws purportedly to protect their citizens' from spam, said Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University. 'The 4th Circuit may have laid waste to all of those efforts.'"
Try modding these messages down next time, and you might get less of them...
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Ironically enough, when I read the article, and advertisement for www.cruise.com, the spammer in question, appeared at the bottom of the page. I wonder how many people will read this article and then feel inspired to shop for a cruise from them?
Oh, thats easy.
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Don't bother. None of the editors around here have even seen a dictionary, let alone realize that "procede" doesn't exist in any of them.
Many would argue that use of "procede" is perfectly cromulent.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Even better, you should tell them. Say to them "I am going to disable the spam filter for you for one week. At the end of the week, come back and tell me you don't think the filter works."
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This doesn't work in most cases, since your friends aren't usually going to quote C. S. Lewis at you. Therefore, anything which sounds like classical literature is spam.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
the judge took the spam companies offer to help him enlarge his penis.
Perhaps he got his Un1v3rsi+y d3gRe3 online, too...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Hey, don't blame me - I sent them an email . . . oh!
.. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.