Suing the Spammers

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Suing the Spammers 244

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 14, 1999 @10:30AM from the aint-that-nice dept.

ReadbackMonkey writes "AOL sued a Queen's based group of spammers, and was awarded $600k. " As always spam is a nasty problem. This morning I was hit with my wseekly request to purchase toner (I don't own a printer) as well as an exciting pornographic opportunity. Its annoying, but I still don't feel happy about seeing lawsuits like this. I'm happy to see spammers pay, but how far could this go?

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