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Spammers Fight Back in Court

Posted by TimSlavin at May 14, 2003

Spammers Fight Back in Court: "After spending years cracking down on spammers, two prominent organizations that list senders of junk e-mail are fending off an unorthodox legal challenge by e-mail marketers. In a case that's raising the hackles of antispam activists, a group of anonymous e-mail marketers are charging that two blacklisting sites, Spamhaus and SPEWS.org (Spam Prevention Early Warning System), have published false, misleading and libelous information about their business practices." From Wired News. Aside from the thin legal merits of the case, it does point up several problems with anti-spam efforts: little or no recourse if you're unfairly blacklisted (that's if you can find the owners of the blacklist), false positives, and erratic results. I have a lightly used Yahoo! email account that always has more spam in the filtered inbox than in the filtered bulk mail folder. The real solution is to make spam unprofitable through progressively heavier fines and jail terms for spammers who refuse to stop sending clearly unsolicited email.

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