[TriLUG] NC spam laws?

[Brandon L. Newport]

Having to help with some spam cases in the past.  I don’t think the rules
have changed yet.  You want to do it through small claims court because it
only costs you roughly $25 (in most states) however in this state I believe
the maximum damages that you can recover is $25...so you have broken even
:(.  I several states like Washington it is up to $500 for the individual or
$1000 for a company, that is per email (incident).  So if you lived there
you would have to work it out with our ISP and both go after the spammer.  I
don’t think the penalties are enough in this state to worthy going after a
spammer.

I wish it was, cause my wife owns a hosting company and let me tell you we
would definitely be going after some of these people :).  Spam is probably
75% of what our customers get.  Most of it is because their email addresses
are located on their web pages.  We have figured out that many of the
spammers are now using google searches to search for email address.  The bad
guys always find a way to make something good into something bad :).

-brandon


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-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of
Chris Hedemark
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 1:22 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] NC spam laws?


Hey y'all

I was recently spammed by a PA consulting company who had very 
obviously harvested my email address off of a local Linux user group in 
Philadelphia.  The spam was sent to my TriLUG account.  The spammer had 
been asked once directly by email to stop spamming me, and he chose to 
ignore that request.

So I'm thinking along the lines of filing a claim in the jurisdiction 
that the TriLUG server sits in (Durham County?) and see if the guy even 
bothers to show up.  I'm wondering what kind of recent legislation has 
been enacted, if any, and if so what sorts of minimum retributions are 
provided for?

Anyone here tried this yet?

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