I would be interested to know: Have there been any court cases in which the plantiff (spam victim) sued the defendant (spamming asshole) for monetary compensation for damages, due to the fact that the plantiff's e-mail carried a signature along the lines of "$x charge per spam message recieved"? (no other factors of significance involved...)...? OR... incidents in which such a "spam fee" was actually paid outside of court? It would be interesting to find out how effective such a threat really is. Thanks, Adam On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, J.D. Falk wrote:
On Jan 5, NetSurfer <netsurf@sersol.com> wrote:
What about representing yourself to be from another domain (e.g. AOL.COM) so that the rejects/flames/etc. go to an innocent agent? Isn't that a form of fraud?
Yes, and both AOL and Compuserve have won civil court cases based on that.
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