[PLUG] Spam law update

[Guy Hammer]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   What encourages me is the article in today's Oregonian reporting that
> Washington has successfully procecuted its first spammer under its
> law. This is a 28-year-old from Salem who sent about 300,000 spam
> mails soliciting sales of his $40 book on how to make money on
> the Internet. Under Washington law, each incident can result in a
> fine of $20,000 plus the cost of procecution. The judge dropped the
> conviction to a single incident and lopped a third off the restitution
> of costs. The defendent now owes the state of Washington $96,000.

That was on /. today. The defendent is appealing on the grounds that he
feels that some law involving protection of interstate commerce is being
violated or some such. I say hang him, or do as my .procmailrc would do -
send him to /dev/null. :-)

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