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Story: Court victory in the fight against spam

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How wrong could you be?

Spam is unsoliciteed commercial email, whether it's an offer of a cheap mortgage, penis extensions, or porn. It is not necessarily an attempt at defrauding the recipient; that is covered under, well, laws covering fraud, just as attempts to deceive someone into divulging personal infomation such as bank account details are also covered under criminal law.

Spam is different and needs to be treated differently. While it may not need criminal intent, it has the same effect as a telephone line being jammed by cold-calling tele-salesmen, to the extent that a company or private individual cannot make a or receive a legitimate email.

If you cannot see the need for laws enabling civil action against such drains on commerce and other legitimate activity then I suggest that you, sir, are either an anonymous fool, or an anonymous spammer.

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