----- Original Message ----- From: "redhat" <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "fedoralist" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:29 AM Subject: OT: Political Spam - what can you do about it? > I have a customer on our system (we're local ISP) that fancies himself > quite the political spinmeister. He absolutely inundates people with > his (what I call) SPAM email. We have received numerous complaints > about this guy from all over the US (mostly colleges that he targets) > requesting that this guy be shut down. He even "attacked" me one day > not knowing who I was and told me that he would sue us if we tried to > take his email privileges away and gave me a link to some government > site with various documents on what "is" email spam and what is "not" > email spam. Apparently (I read all of the docs) when the lawmakers > created this anti-spam law they removed the label "spam" from anything > that is political in nature (so they could use it themselves and be > above the law). It would appear that this guy has me beaten but I just > can't stand to sit back and watch this guy annoy other domains the way > that he does. Does anyone else out there have any "knowledge" or > insight on this issue or can give me a link to some good resources? I > have already scoured the ".gov" sites and it doesn't look good. > thanks, > Doug AFAIK, the whole freedom of speech thing is oriented on the Government. The Fed shall not abridge free speech. That does not prevent me, as a private citizen or company from taking action. Our policy, as an ISP, that sending unsolicited emails violates our AUP. I decide...I am the one who make that decision...not some Govt idiot. If I decide that you violated our AUP? Guess what..you're out of here. We can fight it out in court. -Eucke
