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>-- 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.
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> How do we get something like this started? Keith Moore
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>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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