the law, spam and can I collect?

I know that Bennett Haselton won a few spam cases in WA state a few years
back. He got 1500 per.

-marcia

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, technomage wrote:

> 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
>
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