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Spam Battle Lost, Then Set to Continue
 Well,
well, well. The forces of good have triumphed - at least in
the first round - in the battle against the evils of spam
in Australia.
A Perth court has thrown out a case against a Perth chappie
who is alleged to have given the Internet Protocols of a spam-sending
company to the doers of good - the aptly named Spam Prevention
Early Warning System (SPEWS).
The defendant was being sued for $44,000 in lost business
caused by his alleged and not-proven actions, by the spammers
T3. You see T3, was blocked from sending its pain-in-the-backside,
email clogging and highly unwanted crap by SPEWS.
The court threw the case out, however, T3 is planning an
appeal and is now having a go at its former ISP, which booted
it off its network because of its spamming activities.
Good on Swiftel I say, and here's a huge hooray for the legal
chappie who drop-kicked it out of his courtroom.
I cannot believe spammers are allowed to make money out of
invading the privacy of people's email. Junk snail mail is
banned, so why the hell should we Internet users have to put
up with the scores of daily bull**** that appears on our screens?
The businessman involved with T3, Wayne Mansfield, is angry
because the anti-spam mob is restricting his business. Well,
there are about 15 million Internet-using Australians, Mansfield,
who are sick to bloody death of your practices restricting
our businesses/Internet use.
And if your spamming has hurt your less-offensive business
of webpage design and opt-in database management - well bloody
tough. You reap what you sow.
And, a little legal hint for the Joe McNicol, who was the
guy taken to court by T3: I'd get your lawyers to have a squiz
at the public comments made by Mansfield alleging you were
"a pawn" and "not sophisticated enough to understand
what he was setting off".
I reckon you've a good case there for defamation, but hey,
what would an old fogie like me know??
If there is something that has really got up your nose,
let Grumpy Old Coot know at grumpy@webwombat.com
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