Lou Poppler writes:
Note that the referenced web server is in another domain owned by this same Bob Williams. Perhaps his misleading unsolicited investment advice is part of a package deal provided to companies who buy his web service.
He's been flogging the same shit for a while- I've received three or four of these spams at another address that I use to make Usenet posts. That address is an account at a large workstation company that I consult for. I've been getting a lot of spam there. I suggested on an internal mailing list that the amount of spam that various employees there are getting isn't insignificant and that perhaps they should sue some of the spammers for wasting the company's resources and employee time without permission. I suggest that the "anti-junk-fax" law might be extended to cover spam mail. However I don't trust net-clueless legislators to be able to make even a simple law without fucking it up and restricting civil liberties. However, I heard from a friend that they're doing just that, extending the junk fax law to cover junk email. Something like a $500 fine for each junk email. Does anyone know more? Would mailing-list operators be liable under this law when someone forges a subscription message from "clinton@whitehouse.gov"? -- Eric Murray ericm@lne.com ericm@motorcycle.com http://www.lne.com/ericm PGP keyid:E03F65E5 fingerprint:50 B0 A2 4C 7D 86 FC 03 92 E8 AC E6 7E 27 29 AF