AOL Wins Case Against Spammer
from the maybe-laws-will-help... dept
Following up on the post about spam legislation below, here's a story about AOL winning a civil lawsuit against a spammer. Of course, all the court cases you read about concerning spammers are ones where they seem to catch larger companies. I don't know about most people, but almost all of the spam I get seems to be from individuals who are not at all easily trackable. Until we figure out a way to track down and punish those guys, the spam will just keep coming. No matter how many big spammers get hit up with fines, I don't think it will be seen as disincentive for the one man shop pushing two hundred different pyramid schemes.
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Easy to target spammers
Frankly, I'm tired of "Just Deleting" spam. I do more than delete, I Alt+M return return on all spammail. It works to a point, but it takes what I consider to be my valuable time. I bill my clients $1 - $1.50/ minute. If I spend 10 minutes a day, average 30 days a month, that's $300 per month of my time wasted dealing with spammail. That may seem like chump change to politicians, but I feel it's disrespectful to presume we can "just deal."
We can refuse junk snail mail, why not email?
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