On Jan 7, Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net> wrote:
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.
To the best of my knowledge (and I follow this closely, though I no longer read the news.admin.net-abuse.* groups due to my limited time and their overwhelming lack of substance), nobody has ever collected based on such threats. In some instances, however, that specific spam has stopped. We should probably continue this elsewhere, perhaps spam-policy or a similar list. ********************************************************* J.D. Falk voice: +1-650-482-2840 Supervisor, Network Operations fax: +1-650-482-2844 PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net "The People You Know. The People You Trust." *********************************************************