The spammers are winning

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Chris Kassopulo wrote:
>  > "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com>  wrote:
>  >
>  > Most likely no one on this list falls into this category, but if you
>  > know anyone who has a company that grosses more than 100 million a
> year > and an influential politician in their pocket, they need to start
>  > lobbying hard to stop spam and push ARIN, APNIC, RIPE, LANIC to
> revoke > IP addresses of countries like China and Brasil who only care
> about spam > when it concerns their own citizens.
>  >
>
> Heard this morning that the governor of California, yes that one,
> passed some legislation making it illegal to send spam to or fro
> that state. A penalty of up to one million is possible.
>
> Hey, it's a start.

Yup, the law takes effect on January 1.  Any California resident who
receives spam from anywhere can sue the spammer in small claims court for
$1000 for the first offense.  THe penalties rise fairly substantialy for
additionall offenses.

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