[14582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Denial of Service Attacks disguised as Spam...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Thu Jan 8 00:00:00 1998
X-Envelope-To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 23:55:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>
To: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>
cc: NetSurfer <netsurf@sersol.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980107194254.34393@priori.net>
I would be interested to know:
Have there been any court cases in which the plantiff (spam victim) sued
the defendant (spamming asshole) for monetary compensation for damages,
due to the fact that the plantiff's e-mail carried a signature along the
lines of "$x charge per spam message recieved"? (no other factors of
significance involved...)...?
OR... incidents in which such a "spam fee" was actually paid outside of
court?
It would be interesting to find out how effective such a threat really is.
Thanks,
Adam
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, J.D. Falk wrote:
> On Jan 5, NetSurfer <netsurf@sersol.com> wrote:
>
> > What about representing yourself to be from another domain (e.g. AOL.COM)
> > so that the rejects/flames/etc. go to an innocent agent? Isn't that a
> > form of fraud?
>
> Yes, and both AOL and Compuserve have won civil court cases
> based on that.
>
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