>-- Your message was:   (from "Keith Moore")
>  I think a class-action suit might be in order.  Perhaps the net could
>  sue them for the cost of the disk space taken up by the number of
>  spammed copies, times the number of sites on Usenet.  Even if it is
>  only a few dollars per site the total amount could be substantial.
>
>  How do we get something like this started?  Keith Moore
>  ------------------
>
>I don't think a legal remedy is worth pursuing, because it would take
>too long, cost too much, and likely fail.  The courts tend to lag
>behind technology and they tend to handle new problems poorly.
>
>I think it would be more workable to simply take direct action.  We
>should probably do the homework to identify who the bad guys are,
>sit and cool off for a day, and then put out a call to our readers
>for each of them to send a large file to the offending site if the
>site hasn't cleaned up its own mess.
>
>That would choke a corner of The Net for a day or two, but it would
>probably make sites much more proactive about encouraging their users
>not to do wrong things.
>
>Sounds like panix is doing right things (at least after the fact) in
>the case at hand, but I think sell.com could probably profit from a
>few gigs of trash coming at them.  It might hurt psi, but it's a little
>disappointing that psi is selling a feed to known net sociopaths like
>Canter and Siegal.  -B
 
 
I spoke with one of our legal staff and was reminded that there aren't
really any very clear laws being broken here.  So...  legal action would
(unfortunately) likely fail.
 
 
 
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