From Joe Wagner, received 14/6/01, 2:42 am -0700 (GMT):
> Hi all,
> Looks like I am shortly going to court (Small claims or
> Superior or both is yet to be determined) to sue some spammers. We
> shall soon see how California's anti-spam law 17538.45 ($50/message,
> ISP action only) carries some teeth.
You're very likely to win, but collecting monies from spammers is a
different thing - they're not the types who have money or own
anything in their name (there's a chance you'll find the spammer
lives in a double-wide with a blow-up doll and makes just enough for
chicken and beer).
Their defense might say "but checking is not technically possible" in
which case you can demonstrate to the Judge that software designed
specifically to enable spammers to check for the NO UCE string in
SMTP banners has been available free of charge for years from
http://www.cauce.org/proposal/smtp-banner.html
If you have details of the spammer (names, address, phone, other
domains, etc) you can search the ROKSO database to see if he's
already known: http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso
--
Steve Linford
Ultradesign Xtreme Network
http://www.uxn.com
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