> About SPAM it is legal as far as the company provides you with the > tools to remove your address and they delete it when you require it.
That might apply in Spain, but not in the US (and there's a proposal in the EC to outlaw spam entirely). Lots of spam claims that; Rule #1, Spammers Lie. > If you have followed their instructions to delete your address and > they don't pay attention to you, then it is illegal and you can act > against them, I can act against them anyway, and I do. Spammers have to get network connectivity from somebody, and their provider can cut them off. If it fails to do so, it's provider can cut it off. This goes all the way up until you reach somebody who thinks they're too big to have to care, such as AGIS. They were wrong. > But in the case of the Internet, if I publish my email address in a > web site, this can be interpreted that you want anybody who visits > your web to write to you. You can interpret anything you want any way you want. That doesn't make your interpretation correct or enforceable. > About individuals, I think it is the responsability of the websites > in which they store the email address (for instance, a newsgroup or > a forum) to protect the privacy of the contributors, so if you know > where you left your email address and this one was taken by a > SPAMMER, you don't have to sue the spammer, I don't _have_ to sue anybody. However, it's the spammer who is stealing services I pay for in order to do its advertising. > because he/she/it is performing something as old as Capitalism, > that is Commercial Exploration. No, that is Theft. > It is common in snail mail, how wasn't it > going to do the same in the Internet. In snail mail, somebody sending me something pays most of the costs. That's why catalog companies are very careful about who they send to. > So, summarizing, if you receive an email from somebody and you don't > want it, you have to ask for an unsubscription. Yes, I ask for them to be completely unsubscribed from the Internet. > Pay attention on how to unsubscribe, I read the headers, find their actual sender, and get that removed. I read the body, find the sites they use (e.g. web sites, return email addresses), and get those removed as well. That's the most effective way to unsubscribe. "Just hit delete-a-spammer-from-the-Internet." > because many of us don't follow the instructions properly and the > email sent is going to be read by a machine, not a person, so if the > email says "send a message with the word REMOVE to the address > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and you send "Hi, very nice you wrote to me. Would > you please to unsubscribe me. Thank you"; you are not unsubscribed > then. If you send the message they want, their machine says "Oh, good, we have a live email address with an idiot at the other end who actually reads spam so now we can sell it for a lot more money to all the other spammers on the Internet." If that's what you want, then go ahead and follow their instructions. > If you receive many from many people, install an Anti-SPAM > software. If this doesn't work, try to remind where you left your > email address and ask the webmaster to delete your email address. If > he/she/it doesn't do it, then sue (whatever). It's too late, the spammers have already seen it. > If you have thousands of emails, then change your email address and > send a letter to your contacts informing them that your email > address. No, I've been using this email address for over a decade, and I'm not going to change it. I'd rather kick thousands of spammers off the Internet for abusing it (and I have). Seth _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
