>> Another way to look at things would be to check out the court cases >> where Corporations have sued their employees for misuse of e-mail.
> Do you know where there are any of these cases that I can review online? No, sorry. I just remember seeing this issue on the news. > As a business owner, I am all about Free Enterprise. But I do not > hi-jack other folks servers or conduct dictionary attacks to e-mail > servers that I do not own to solicit my goods/services. I think we all > agree if an e-mail address is published on a public site it is fair > game, otherwise leave me alone unless I ask. I agree! > I know this may perhaps be hedging OT, but what happened to ORBZ this > week could happen to any of using a Kill file, Processing Rules, or > Declude as "Joe the Lawyer" points out. Even if we feel he and Battle > Creek are wrong, we can be forced in fear to shut down just like ORBZ > did and defending lawsuits that are frivolous and without foundation. > Can Ian Gulliver at ORBZ afford to defend himself alone? Can any of us > alone? I would suggest not telling your customers how you stop spam, just that you do. Why should your TOOLS be liable for your actions? That's like putting the manufactures of Guns in prison every time someone is killed by one. > I guess the whole thing just pisses me off. I know that "morally" it is > wrong for individuals and entities to send most of the unsolicited and > trickery Spam that is being blocked by reputable firms. However, > "legally" I am not so sure until such time I can reference a federal or > international ruling/law. I feel I need something to back me up and in > our usage agreement and defend our customer policies. I'm not sure either, however, Spam is like a virus and it takes away from other legitimate businesses that want to tell you about their services and/or sales. I have consulted with allot of my clients, most of them just hit delete when they don't know where the e-mail came from. So what's the point of these guys sending this mail if no one reads it? That's why I say it's like a virus that spread under are skins and threatens our servers for no good reason. > Sorry to be so verbose, but it just ticks me off what I am seeing > happening and those who are responsible sending Spam and then actually > believing they should have the given right to do so. Like I said, "It's your server, do what you want with it." I know how you feel, if I wasn't so upset about spam and the controversy I would have been able to type this reply better and really put more thought than emotion into it. Regards, Tom --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
