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[Michael S Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>]

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On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:07 pm, you wrote:
> >The main thing that fuels a class action suit is the ability to punish the
> >perpetrator by getting a monetary award. The people who try to sell viagra
> >through unsolicited email are mostly losers with no money, so there's no
> >financial incentive.
>
> Well at the very least, it might help, or at least feel like you're doing
> something, to send spammers the quoted NC spam law and its location on the
> Web. Doubtful that a lot of them ever read incoming replies, but again,
> it's better than just filtering and complaining.
>

Actually I do more than complain. Spammers most often hide the source and 
path of the email making it difficult to complain to the ISP, but Spamcop has 
software that figures out where the email came from, and then allows you to 
send a detailed complaint email to all parties involved. I'm pretty careful 
about who I send this to, since you don't want administrators to start 
ignoring SPAM complaints. This often results in the spammer's ISP closing 
them down.

I've personally get a registered letter from my ISP every time I send an 
email to one of our mailing lists, so I know that at least some ISPs do pay 
attention to complaints.

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Michael S Czeiszperger
czei AT webperformanceinc.com

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