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Except you can't use it for any legitimate purpose, as this would violate the CAN-SPAM Act.
by achille 14y ago
Except you can't use it for any legitimate purpose, as this would violate the CAN-SPAM Act.
- carlsednaoui 14y agoVery true, but recruiters do use GH to get contact info... It's just easier if you dont have to deal with unsolicited emails.
- catch23 14y agoI'm also guessing that developers are the hardest type of people to spam. The first time they see a weird email, they'd hit the "mark as spam" button, and if they still see stuff coming through, they'll either create a filter or track you down :-)
- biot 14y agoIn this particular case, it's true. According to Section 7704(b)(1)(A)(i) [0] harvesting emails is considered an aggravated violation of the CAN-SPAM act and is subject to triple the statutory fines per section 7706(2)(f)(3)(C). The normal statutory fines are up to $250 per violation per section 7706(2)(f)(3)(A). Doing the math, 28000 * $250 is $7,000,000. Fortunately, according to 7706(2)(f)(3)(B) this is capped at $2,000,000. However, this is prior to triple damages taking effect for aggravated violations of section 7704. This means that those 28,000 emails (should one be foolish enough to email them) carry a CAN-SPAM penalty of up to $6,000,000. Or about $214 per email address. I hope it's worth it. [0] http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/15C103.txt http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/15C103.txt
- carlsednaoui 14y agoOhh wow, I wasn't aware of this, thanks for sharing. Good thing I've already deleted the DB and have absolutely no plan on emailing any of these email addresses...
- don_draper 14y agoBut the pro spammers use proxies that make it hard to trace activity back to a person. And many of the people spamming are not in the US.