Hey, if anyone sues, I'll just say it's Justin's fault, and they can try and track him down wherever he is in Asia...
C On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 13:31, Matthew Cline wrote: > On Tuesday 26 March 2002 08:55 am, Jason Kohles wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 10:18, Smith, Rick wrote: > > > How long do you think it will be until users of SA face the same > > > consequences as the now infamous ORBZ case ? > > > > > > I'm sure that some lawyer out there could find a way to sue someone for > > > running this package. > > > > The problem with ORBZ didn't have anything to do with anti-spam in > > general, the problem was that the specific actions it used to determine > > if a mail server was an open relay would crash lotus notes mail > > servers. > > MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) has been sued by several spammers, for > defemation/libel and restraint of trade (or something like that); see > http://mail-abuse.org/in-the-news.html > > Also, I believe that AOL was once sued by a spammer, and was forced to stop > filtering that spammers emails to AOL users. > > So theroetically spammers *could* sue SA if they are specifically listed in > SA rules. For instance, MonsterHut.com could sue us for defemation and/or > restraint of trade, and since, ulike MAPS, we have no legal defence fund, > we'd have to take them out. However, spam which matches our general > heuristics wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on, since in that case SA is > only saying that it *looks* like spam, and we acknowledge that it can lead to > false positives. A spammer might still be able to sue an individual ISP to > stop them from filtering spam, like happened with AOL. > > However, if a bunch of spammers co-operated, each of them could file a > seperate suit against SA in different jurisdictions, and more spammers could > bring up suits when the old ones were thrown out; you can use anyone for > anything, even if it ends up getting thrown out of court. If this happened > enough, we'd get sued out of existence. > > -- > Visit http://dmoz.org, the world's | Give a man a match, and he'll be warm > largest human edited web directory. | for a minute, but set him on fire, and > | he'll be warm for the rest of his life. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 132152059 | > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
