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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 14:52:10 -0700
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From: Russ Steele <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FWD: Anti-Spam Suit in Houston
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Any one interested in joining a spam class action suit.

Russ


>Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:05:36 -0700 (PDT)
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>From: P J Rowell <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: FWD: Anti-Spam Suit in Houston
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>If interested, see the following post that came to me tonight through
>one of my genealogy lists.
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>Patricia
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>Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:39:32 -0500
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>From: Nancy Trice <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: ANTI-SPAM LAWSUIT IN HOUSTON
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>This was on ROOTS-L tonight...
>nt
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>Date: Wed, 11 Jun 97 10:01:00 PDT
>From: "Hagen, Glen" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: ANTI-SPAM LAWSUIT IN HOUSTON
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>In the spirit of the anti-spamming discussions that have gone on here, I
>thought it would be of interest to the group.
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>A Web site developer in Houston, Texas, is suing Cyber Promotions, a
>Philadelphia company that runs an aggressive bulk e-mail operation on the
>Internet, charging Cyber Promotions with using the developer's Internet
>domain as a bogus return address that has caused the developer to receive
>vast quantities of bounced e-mail as well as numerous "flames" from people
>who resented Cyber's unwanted solicitations.  The Houston company, Web
>Systems, says that it will try to turn the suit into a class action on
>behalf of anyone who has an Internet domain name, and that it hopes to use
>the courts to force bulk e-mailers to use their real return addresses.
>(Houston Chronicle 7 Jun 97)
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