The police (including FBI, etc), don't have the resources to go after EVERY person who does this. By making it a civil law, and attaching damages to that law, you allow individuals to get lawyers and sue the person into bankruptcy. The number of junk faxes have gone way down since the junk fax laws were passed.
Murray passed the California anti-spam law which provided $1,000 for each spam (until the scum passed the CAN-SPAM, law). Now, the law provides for $1,000 per spam that uses a deceptive header. I, working with a few others put one the Avtech Direct spammers out of business with 20 small claims court actions.
The criminal laws still exist for identity theft, fraud, etc.
OJ was set free on his criminal trial, but found liable in the civil trial.
There is the The Polarbar Mailer which has been around for a while. But Polarbar started life as the JStreet Mailer, but when Innoval stopped selling it, it became the Polarbar mailer.
But, there is a history of laws being passed that have unintended intepretations. A very good example is ERISA. This was intended to give employers who ran their own insurance program some discretion in intrepreting the plan, but every insurance plan that the employer collects the money for, then pays to the insurance company now uses it to get out of paying claims.
In some states (USA) there are anti-SLAPP statutes that permit a defendant to dismiss quickly and receive attorney fees and costs.
The anti-SLAPP motion (generally) requires the case be brought as a result of a right to petition (ie. complaint to a court or government) or an issue of public concern and that there is not a great likelyhood of success. For more information go to www.casp.net or http://www.barbieslapp.com./ SLAPP stands for Strategic lawsuit against public participation.
Most lawyers and judges do the same thing. If you read case briefs, you will see lawyers argue over the same case as being helpful to them or not helpful. You will also see different case decisions citing different lines out of a case to compare or to contrast that case to the one that they are citing. This is common. You might want to think of it as two blind men describing an elephant from 2 different perspectives -- One describes it as a snake and another describes it as a tree.
While working for a nutcase . I spoke with with Philip Resnik about his project of building a href="http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/resnik/paral lel/bible.html">parallel corpus as a tool to build a language translation system. This seems like the next logical step.
Didn't Apple go after anyone that had a windows type interface? Don't you remember the pins that Richard Stallman handed out, "Keep your lawyers off of my computer" and a snake with an Apple logo?
The principles are the same! I had this argument 15 years ago, while a DPMA chapter president. One of the board members kept trying the argument, "are we a micro or mainframe group?" I said it does not matter, the same rules apply. The only difference is that people are forgiving of micro failure, but when a mainframe crashes people are fired.
Do everyone a favor and out him. If we know who he is and how to identify his spammer and the companies he spams for, then a bunch of us can sue him into bankruptcy.
A couple of facts here. 1. Each class of mail service is supposed to pay for itself. 2. The USPS is not a government agency. It is really a quasi government agency.
This Barry Lewis is from Cape Cod (Mass.) He claimed to have gone to law school in Arizona. He lived in downtown Boston and Newton. He started a company called Basic Language Systems.
One psychopath that I worked for was Barry Lewis. He would have screaming fits on the phone. After he refused to pay me for a month, he still wanted me to spend time working for him, when I told him that I'd gather what he wanted, once I received payment, he then started calling me about 20 times a day.
He was convicted of harassment. The ADA told me that Barry Lewis threatened him and some of the other employees of the court.
I think we all should send his cellmate bottles of penis enlargment pills, viagra, cialis, cialis soft tabs, Jackrabbit vibrators, and everything else we get from spam.
Probably because the size of the class. There are issues with class notification. A class action is a difficult thing to do.
But, if 1000 seperate plaintiffs file 1000 different suits, but trade documents, it will be simpler for the plaintiff, but a much bigger head ache for the spammer. And many of the spams permit attorney fees.
Microsoft received $7M from Richter, but what about all the other spam victims of Richter. There still is over $45M in proofs of claims against Snotty.
If even.1% of spam spam victims sued Snotty for the spam that he sent, he would be out of money.
One large spam suit usually does not take out a spammer, but 1000 or 10,000 smaller suits will.
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Murray passed the California anti-spam law which provided $1,000 for each spam (until the scum passed the CAN-SPAM, law). Now, the law provides for $1,000 per spam that uses a deceptive header. I, working with a few others put one the Avtech Direct spammers out of business with 20 small claims court actions.
The criminal laws still exist for identity theft, fraud, etc. OJ was set free on his criminal trial, but found liable in the civil trial.
Power leakage is not the only heatsource. The sarcasm detector emits heat when the sarcasm reaches the limit of the detector.
There is the The Polarbar Mailer which has been around for a while. But Polarbar started life as the JStreet Mailer, but when Innoval stopped selling it, it became the Polarbar mailer.
You are correct, that is what is intended.
But, there is a history of laws being passed that have unintended intepretations. A very good example is ERISA. This was intended to give employers who ran their own insurance program some discretion in intrepreting the plan, but every insurance plan that the employer collects the money for, then pays to the insurance company now uses it to get out of paying claims.
In some states (USA) there are anti-SLAPP statutes that permit a defendant to dismiss quickly and receive attorney fees and costs.
The anti-SLAPP motion (generally) requires the case be brought as a result of a right to petition (ie. complaint to a court or government) or an issue of public concern and that there is not a great likelyhood of success. For more information go to www.casp.net or http://www.barbieslapp.com./
SLAPP stands for Strategic lawsuit against public participation.
Most lawyers and judges do the same thing. If you read case briefs, you will see lawyers argue over the same case as being helpful to them or not helpful. You will also see different case decisions citing different lines out of a case to compare or to contrast that case to the one that they are citing. This is common.
You might want to think of it as two blind men describing an elephant from 2 different perspectives -- One describes it as a snake and another describes it as a tree.
That is a Winblows bug.
Check KELLY v. ARRIBA SOFT CORP.
The court ruled that framing was copyright infringement.
While working for a nutcase . I spoke with with Philip Resnik about his project of building a href="http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/resnik/paral lel/bible.html">parallel corpus as a tool to build a language translation system. This seems like the next logical step.
Didn't Apple go after anyone that had a windows type interface? Don't you remember the pins that Richard Stallman handed out, "Keep your lawyers off of my computer" and a snake with an Apple logo?
Isn't turnabout fair play?
In 1989, I had a recruiter calling me and asking if I had 10 years of PC DOS programming experience.
He sold this for the sole purpose of being installed into a system (in violation of the law) and sending the data out.
This is creating a selling a product that sole purpose is to commit a crime.
The principles are the same! I had this argument 15 years ago, while a DPMA chapter president. One of the board members kept trying the argument, "are we a micro or mainframe group?" I said it does not matter, the same rules apply. The only difference is that people are forgiving of micro failure, but when a mainframe crashes people are fired.
Do everyone a favor and out him. If we know who he is and how to identify his spammer and the companies he spams for, then a bunch of us can sue him into bankruptcy.
A couple of facts here. 1. Each class of mail service is supposed to pay for itself. 2. The USPS is not a government agency. It is really a quasi government agency.
They have a constitutional right to send your 6 year old daughter ads for penis enlargment pills.
The source code is not available to anyone. I hadn't finished it. I was building the architecture and designing the system when the money vanished.
Yep, that is the nutcase.
This Barry Lewis is from Cape Cod (Mass.) He claimed to have gone to law school in Arizona. He lived in downtown Boston and Newton. He started a company called Basic Language Systems.
One psychopath that I worked for was Barry Lewis. He would have screaming fits on the phone. After he refused to pay me for a month, he still wanted me to spend time working for him, when I told him that I'd gather what he wanted, once I received payment, he then started calling me about 20 times a day.
He was convicted of harassment. The ADA told me that Barry Lewis threatened him and some of the other employees of the court.
All in the name of poetic justice.
As the article said, "May." We need to send someone outside the galaxy, so they can look and make a positive determination.
But, if 1000 seperate plaintiffs file 1000 different suits, but trade documents, it will be simpler for the plaintiff, but a much bigger head ache for the spammer. And many of the spams permit attorney fees.
If even .1% of spam spam victims sued Snotty for the spam that he sent, he would be out of money.
One large spam suit usually does not take out a spammer, but 1000 or 10,000 smaller suits will.
Norman: If you alway lie, and you are lying to me now, you must be telling the truth. But if you tell telling the truth, you must be lying to me.....