On April 20, 1997 at 15:17 bbecker@iconn.net (Bill Becker) wrote:
What has to be done is to get these third-party relay spammers arrested, sued, and their heads hung out on poles for all to see and give pause to others who might think of doing this.
Judges (in the US) would not do that because nobody dies or goes broke as a result of spam. It's merely annoying. But even if US judges were
Nobody dies or goes broke if I play a stereo at full volume outside your bedroom window... Besides, I think we are getting closer and closer to people going broke over spam as it chases potential customers away. It's kind of like having to let people who fart a lot or won't bathe eat in your restaurant (or maybe a closer analogy is people who insist on throwing food around the room, I mean, it's not deadly, merely annoying...)
willing to nail spammers, the spammers would simply move out of their jurisdictions. With strict anti-spam laws in place, what would you do if you were being spammed from a site in Liberia? Same thing you do now.
I'd lobby to have Liberia's net link cut off if they can't deal with it. Networking is a two-way street.
To me, saying this can be solved technically is like saying that a rash of window breakings in your neighborhood can be solved "technically" -- everyone merely has to nail up plywood over all their windows and voila', end of problem.
Well, your options are limited. You can do technical things because that's within your power. But the only laws that will affect spam, are the laws of economics.
Well, thank you for your useless legal advice but I assure you my attorneys feel otherwise and I'm currently well into pursuing having two of them arrested (some do make serious mistakes.) You'd've made a good serf, Becker.
Bill
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