Slam the Spammer

[Erik Nilsson]

For a while at least, just mentioning the WA law in a message to a spammer's
domain's postmaster seemed to have some effect, but I think those days are
over. I suspect most spammers either have figured out the law doesn't cover
them or are offshore pirates who just don't care.

These days, my primary defense against spam is aggressive filtering. I
figure there are very few people who I want to get ahold of me, who can't
reach me via some other means than email. Thus the risk of overfiltering is
small. So when I get spam from an unlikely domain (such as click2site.com),
I typically filter the whole domain. I've also filtered out messages with
subject lines that are, if not spam, at least unlikely to be literate enough
to interest me. Multiple exclamation marks and dollar signs in the subject
lines are examples.

 - Erik

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Sabisch <esabisch at uswest.net>
To: 'Doug Schuler' <douglas at scn.org>; aki at halcyon.com <aki at halcyon.com>
Cc: jeff at turbotek.net <jeff at turbotek.net>; local-computer-activists at scn.org
<local-computer-activists at scn.org>; scn at scn.org <scn at scn.org>
Date: Friday, October 08, 1999 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: Slam the Spammer


>Doug,
>  Jeff and I skimmed over it.  I will have to dig deeper, but there are a
>lot of loopholes and could be interpreted many ways. Then again, when is
>there not?   Depending on how you read it, you can find something that the
>spammer is violating, be it using their ISP's Domain improperly, or
>conducting business in Wa. via electronic means.  I will continue to
>research as I would really like to use this somehow.
>
>AH!  a cause!
>
>Eric
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Schuler [mailto:douglas at scn.org]
>Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 9:29 AM
>To: aki at halcyon.com
>Cc: esabisch at uswest.net; jeff at turbotek.net;
>local-computer-activists at scn.org; scn at scn.org
>Subject: Re: Slam the Spammer
>
>
>I was wondering about that.  We did read the actual law since it's on-line.
>We probably missed the small print.  What are the restrictions?
>
>-- Doug
>
>> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:17:05 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Aki Namioka <aki at halcyon.com>
>> To: Doug Schuler <douglas at scn.org>
>> cc: local-computer-activists at scn.org, scn at scn.org, esabisch at uswest.net,
>>         jeff at turbotek.net
>> Subject: Re: Slam the Spammer
>>
>> Its a rather restricted law, if you read the fine print, i.e. it won't
>> affect most spammers.
>>
>> - Aki
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Doug Schuler wrote:
>>
>> > Here is some news that a couple of my students uncovered.  I
>> > hadn't known that!
>> >
>> > -- Doug
>> >
>> > > From: "Eric Sabisch" <esabisch at uswest.net>
>> > > To: "WWC Distribution List (E-mail)" <WWC at scn.org>
>> > > Subject: Interesting URL
>> > > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:42:23 -0700
>> > >
>> > > Hello everyone,
>> > >   Last night I attended Doug's workshop on Social Responsibility and
>the
>> > > Internet.  Great class.  While doing the workshop, Jeff Kiper and
>myself
>> > > came across the URL talking about the anti-spam law in Washington
>State.
>> > > Yep, you can take a spammer to court if you reside in Washington.
>Anyway,
>> > > This web-site tells about the law, with links to the actual law, and
>has a
>> > > "how-to" section to 'Slam the Spammer'.  Check it out.  If you win
the
>case,
>> > > you could potentially collect up to $ 500.00.  Not bad.
>> > >
>> > > http://www.mcnichol.com/spam.htm
>> > >
>> > > ENJOY.
>> > >
>> > > Eric S. Sabisch
>> > > esabisch at uswest.net
>> > >
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>> Thanks,
>> Aki Helen Namioka
>> aki at cpsr.org
>>
>>
>
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