-- 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 --------- Dr. Brian Leverich Information Systems Scientist, The RAND Corporation Co-moderators, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L [log in to unmask]