From: "Rob McEwen (PowerView Systems)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Some of the state laws in the U.S. are stronger than the Federal Government's
laws.
In Georgia where I live, there is a pretty good law for this type of thing:
http://www.gov.state.ga.us/press/2005/press765.shtml
Now, interestingly, I've recently taken on several different law firms as mail hosting
clients... and... JUST A FEW DAYS AGO... just about all the attorneys in all of these
law firms got slammed with some kind of newsletter about law that I'm 100% positive that
NONE of them had subscribed to. It **looked** fairly legit... but was sent from some
company in Nevada. What is more interesting is that the newsletter even boasted in a
banner at the top "this newsletter is being sent to xx thousand attorneys in
Georgia."... (and I think they sent to all of them on the same day) Also, to make this
more interesting, they kept sending it again and again. ALL of these were just barely
being caught by my spam filter... and when my spam filter "just barely" catches
something, it gives the sending server an "OK" response code... so as far as they could
possibly know, ALL of these were being received each of the several times they kept
sending them!
Add all this up and I'm quite sure that they had to be violating that law in
Georgia.
But suppose I **could** prove that they were in violation of that law in Georgia, would
there be ANY financial motivation or reward for me to sue them... (assuming that I won
in court)?
If not, I simply don't have the financial resources to put my company and myself through
such an ordeal. I would go out of business for lack of focus on the things that I need
to concentrate on.
As a single person recipient of emails from one sender you might be
able to get some modest damages. But they'd likely be below the cost
of finding the actual senders and then proving you'd not signed up
for their list in small claims court. It's ISPs that have to handle
millions of extra spam messages that have the big money cases against
an individual spam source - if you can find the sucker.
{^_^}
