I would hope not.
> Daniluk, Cris writes:
> > If his mail was in fact legitimate, which I think he said
> it was, I think
> > you are making some actions which could have potential
> legal ramifications
> > should he chose to take that route. If it is in fact spam,
> by your own
> > admissions, you didn't check to see, you blindly
> blacklisted it. If I was in
> > his shoes, I can say unequivocably that you would be
> receiving a call from
> > my lawyer.
> No matter how dumb or not dumb mail.com's action was, they
> had every legal
> right to do what they did. It's their servers, their private
> property, and
> their bandwidth.
Which, if you would note, are used by people who enter into a contractual
arrangement by which they either pay mail.com (iname.com users with a POP
account, for example) directly or access their e-mail via a web interface
where they agree to view ads in exchange for, ahem, receiving e-mail. I
don't know what type of list the guy is running, but if, for example, it was
a high importance list and the customers of said list lost money or similar
because of mail.com's actions (or the list maintainer lost money because of
mail.com's non-researched actions), then either the customers and/or himself
have a very decent case.
IOW, you're forgetting mail.com sells their servers and bandwidth. It's only
private if you don't make money on it.
> Even if you managed to find some dumb yutz who'd bring this
> to court on
> your behalf, the only thing that would happen is a quick
> summary judgement,
> with you forced to pay the other guy's legal fees.
I wouldn't be so sure.
