Hi, On Fri, 23.10.2009 at 10:54:02 +0200, Andreas Rehmer <reh...@teltarif.de> wrote: > i dont know it exactly but i dont think it. One day before the > Bundestagswahl in Germany. Guido Westerwelle (Leader from an big faction) > send around a Spam-Mail to vote for his faction. I think its enough that > you can say i get the adresses legally eg. from an adress trader or > something else. Then you mostly have no Problems to send around spam.
I seriously doubt it, besides this probably not being applicable to spamming from the UK (not Germany). The following does only apply to Germany, so you might consider it OT: Things might be halfway ok if this address trader was eg. Schober or so, but I'm pretty sure that you don't stand on this leg in front of the court if you purchased one of the "xy million emails - verified - for only $100" CDs that float around the 'Net. Thankfully, a recent court decision effectively says that if you can't prove that a certain user went through double-opt-in, then you are a spammer, and are liable to pay damages towards the spammed subject. Please see http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Landgericht-weitet-Schutz-vor-Spam-aus-836298.html for the details of the story (in German). FWIW, I also already considered taking big name ("blue chip company") spammers, who seem to think their big names make them sit above the law, to court for spamming me and not stopping it, despite my trying to opt out of their system. Kind regards, --Toni++
