On Sunday 22 May 2005 17:39, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > there is a separate issue ... ISPs for a long time tended to not want > to take responsibility (and therefor liability) for spam origination.
One of the legal thrusts that is going on at the moment is that the contracts that ISPs had with spammers have been discovered, and are now being used as evidence in civil suits. It turns out that many ISPs were handing special "ok-to-spam" contracts to their spamers for lots of dosh. They were all secret of course, and in contravention of their own policies and terms and services. (So that means that spam facilitation is being sued on, and just recently click-fraud was litigated. A few months back online banking was litigated over viruses. Also, dodgy operating systems and deliberate malware is in action as well. Four cleanups in the courts, or between the lawyers! Good time to be a lawyer I suppose.) iang -- Advances in Financial Cryptography: https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000458.html _______________________________________________ mozilla-crypto mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-crypto
