the law, spam and can I collect?

On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:46 pm, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 23:11, technomage wrote:
> > ok,
> > I sat down and figured out how much I should charge to have to deal with
> > spam.
> >
> > below is a sample letter I am sending to the 6 biggest offenders. (I'll
> > use SBC communications as they are the biggest).
>
> -----
> be real careful here.
>
> 1 - they have lawyers on retainer. The old adage of don't do battle with
> those that buy ink by the barrel.
that means they have money to spend. if they counter sue, I can present in
court all the neccessary evidence without much cost to me (I have original
spams in storage here).

>
> 2 - don't make threats that you don't fully intend to act upon.
I intend on fully keeping them. I don't make idle threats. (case in point is
the suit filed against devry Inc in 1990 that resulted in their declaring
bankruptsy and subsequently being bought for pennies on the dollar by keller
international schools, Inc.).

>
> 3 - what you actually need is proof (headers can be spoofed) and case
> law that indicates that they have liability.
some of the headers can be spoofed, but not the last one just prior to a valid
MTA.
>
> My suggestion...better to spend your time setting up spamassassin
that means I would also have to setup fetchmail and a whole host of other
things that I don't have a lot of time for... :(

Mage