bulk postage fine (was Re: non-censorous spam control)

? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} dformosa at st.nepean.uws.edu.au
Sat Aug 2 23:40:28 PDT 1997



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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:

> David Formosa <dformosa at st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:

[...]

> > The best soultion given so far is Cause's suggestion of modifying
> > the fax law so that we can sue the spammers.
> 
> Law, and suing and the internet don't mix.

You got to be jokeing, what about alomost every AOL vs. Cyberpromo or
Compuserve vs. Cyberpromo or all thouse other ISPs against Cyberpromo.

> Eg. Say I spam you via an anonymous remailer.  So now who are you
> going to sue?

The spammers if there advertising a servese will need someway for me to
contact them.  Some way for me to get the goods.  Just anonomising the
email will not hide there identy.  Any way pushing spammer email though
most email remailers will cause them to crash from sheare volume.

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