---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:14:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Blacklisted spam victim wants his day in court http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980928-14646,00.html TIME Digital's Netly News September 28, 1998 Blacklisted Spam Victim Wants His Day in Court By Declan McCullagh (declan@well.com) When Craig Harmer got spammed, he did what all of us should do: he fired off a nasty email to the perp and the perp's Internet provider. "I was trying to get his web site connectivity yanked," says Harmer, a 35-year old Unix programmer who didn't really think much of it at the time. But the spammer remembered. Harmer says someone named Michael Reed was behind the bulk email, and accuses Reed of retaliating by using Harmer's Internet site as a mail relay, pumping megabytes of forged sex spam through it and letting Harmer take the rap. [...remainder snipped...]