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Suing Spammers for Fun and Profit (2004) [pdf]

• mslate 11y ago
  "I was awarded $470 for the spam, $50 for the filing fee, and $5000 in legal fees" This might be a scalable practice....if you're a lawyer.
• kazoomoodooou 11y ago
  just use Gmail, I never get any unwanted email to go outside of my spam folder, you should not be running your own mail server, that is dumb.
  • jwcrux 11y ago
    Well the fact that gmail launched the same month this journal was published would have made that difficult for the author..
• username223 11y ago
  I applaud people willing to take the time to demonstrate that the law applies to even the little people. However, the amount of time and effort this guy put into a few hundred dollars' damages shows why class actions are important.