New virus warning

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
...
>Yup.  They said this before the bill was passed, and the increase
>in spam since the law went into effect has seemed to bear this out.
>And it can embolden those who were holding off because of the
>extremely strict laws in some states, which the CAN-SPAM bill
>nullified by having the Federal law supercede all state laws.

On the other hand, the legal actions by AOL, Microsoft, and a couple of
other 900lb Gorrilla ISPs are causing some serious damage to the
professional spammers.  AOL is raffling of a Porsche that was taken from a
California spammer recently (you have to have been an existing AOL customer
prior to some date to get in on this :-).

Many of these suits are being brought in Virginia under laws other than
CAN-SPAM, laws dealing with fraud, and other obviously illegal activity.
The court where the suits are being brought has the nick-name ``the rocket
dockette'' for the speed with which things move there.

I saw a very funny e-mail recently on an anti-spam mailing list that was
from a local Seattle spammer who had all his computer equipment siezed.  He
was looking for a ``good cheap lawyer'' to take on Microsoft.  His e-mail
was to a group of spammers, and he admitted to several major violations
while asking them for help to find said lawyer.

If I were a major spammer caught in the cross-hairs of these guys, I think
I would heading for someplace that didn't have extradition treaties with
the U.S.

Bill
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