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On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Gadi Evron wrote: > > Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/18/spam.lawsuit.ap/index.html > > > > What a nice present for the holiday season :-) > > > > -Hank > > Indeed! If it will hold after the appeal. > Thing is, the spammers are not there to be found for paying, so they > might not exist for appealing. Meaning this might become a real legal > precedence.. so maybe there will even be a second. While it is a victory in the Legal sense, it doesn't actually have any consequence to the spammers: "Kramer's attorney, Kelly Wallace, said he is unlikely to ever collect the judgment, which was made possible by an Iowa law that allows plaintiffs to claim damages of $10 per spam message. The judgments were then tripled under RICO. "We hope to recover at least his costs," Wallace said." -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST
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