On 1/18/05 11:07 AM, "Chris Santerre" wrote:
I thought this was worth forwarding, as you never know when one of our projects may fall under this kind of silly thing. Also want to keep a good eye out on the Discovery aspect of it all. What spammers don't realize is that with this suit, we can now find out more about them.
I read his and the link to the other case. Pretty sad day when the government will allow this and not dismiss these cases for what they are, legal blackmail and efforts to put a person or company out of business.
While I am all for the government to stay out of much of my and my business life, I really think we need some better laws and the enforcement of those laws. Not only in the US but world-wide. Every ISP should be held accountable for allowing a spammer to operate, the upstream network provider should be held accountable also. Maybe if it looked like a witch hunt and a taking down of all involved, just maybe, we would see self enforcement done and a lot of this would start to die. Also if people would quit buying the services of spammers we would see it die quick. I think charging the spam buyers legally is the end and true answer.
My un-important 2ยข