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ikluft@thunder.sbay.org (Ian Kluft) wrote:
>However, at the same time, the spammers are getting away with making others
>pay for the delivery of their advertisement.  So you do have reason to
>oppose them.  Just use something that has a chance of working, like
>complaining to their site admins or, if that doesn't work, go upstream
>from their site to complain.  You are justified to take any possible
>(legal) action to shut them down if they're wasting massive amounts of
>bandwidth funded by others' ISP payments.

It really does strike me that email is a lot like FAX's in the legal
sense.  A computer takes a message, encodes it as a stream of data,
sends it over telecommunications lines to another computer which
recieves the message and decodes it back to human readable form (and
optionally prints it).

I think we need some way of suggesting to the powers that be to
broaden the anti-junk-fax laws (whatever they are, I'm pretty sure
unsolicited commercial fax are illegal) so that email is covered by
the same regulations.  

Anyone know a lawyer who's versed in telecommunications law and
computer-savvy?  

-jrp
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