Spammers arrested?
Apr. 30th, 2004 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingThe link is NOT WORK SAFE, because it's on AVN.com
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Small, Spoofed E-Mailer Led to First CAN-SPAM Bust
WASHINGTON - It may have taken an overloaded small e-mail service provider in Washington state to trigger what turns out to be the nation's first legal case - four defendants, all in the Detroit area - under the new and still controversial CAN-SPAM Act.
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The link is NOT WORK SAFE, because it's on AVN.com
Of course, the article is written for AVN, meaning that they don't actually realise that CAN-SPAM is completely toothless and, indeed, enshrines in law the *right* of the real problem spammers to spam, but apparently it's being used to squash the small stupid ones.
It's a start.
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Small, Spoofed E-Mailer Led to First CAN-SPAM Bust
WASHINGTON - It may have taken an overloaded small e-mail service provider in Washington state to trigger what turns out to be the nation's first legal case - four defendants, all in the Detroit area - under the new and still controversial CAN-SPAM Act.
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The link is NOT WORK SAFE, because it's on AVN.com
Of course, the article is written for AVN, meaning that they don't actually realise that CAN-SPAM is completely toothless and, indeed, enshrines in law the *right* of the real problem spammers to spam, but apparently it's being used to squash the small stupid ones.
It's a start.
Thank You
Date: 2004-04-30 10:52 am (UTC)Luckily, I read hte URL in the status bar when I mouse over the link. That goes a long way toward keeping corporate security off my back.