[TriLUG] NC spam laws?

[Brandon L. Newport]

It is pretty cool there are some ISPs in Seattle going after the spammers
and they are basically funding more claims with winning from other claims.
They typically settle out of court for half of the amount...so if they get
$500 from it that is used to go after 10 more spammers, and so on...pretty
cool idea actually, but then again they are getting more back than the cost
of the claim.

-brandon


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-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of
Jeremy Portzer
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 2:01 PM
To: TriLUG List
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] NC spam laws?


On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:39, Brandon L. Newport wrote:
> 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 :(.

In small claims court, you can (and normally do) ask the judge to add your
court costs on to the damages.  So the damages would be for the $25 of the
award plus the court costs.  Of course, then you have to collect the
judgement, which can be pretty tough if the person is nowhere to be found.

--Jeremy

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