> > > > I absolutely agree. This is the worst type of net-bashing I have seen > > so far---these people are not pretending to be innocent: they added > > an 'Approved:' header line so as to get through to every possible > > news group without the intervention of moderators. > > > > I think a severe punishment is in place here. I think the providers of > > cyber.sell.com should ban the entire site from the net for a few weeks, > > so they're forced to take measures against the people who distributed > > the ad. > > 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. Hmm, Nasty things lawsuits.. They then usually lead to countersuits $$$ spent and in the end only the lawyers really win (But then again these folks are lawyers :O ) Bleak House ... The first thing is to really guage how much support there is for this kind of effort. Perhaps someone at a University with a Law School could get a little volunteer time from either students or faculty to see if there is even the basis to sue .. (Not that that ever stopped anyone).... What exactly was lost ? After all these resources are being put up by "entities" for public consumption and that is what they did (consume ...) Are we all willing to dig into our pockets ? Are other folks ... Can we get some kind of institutional backing ? (I use the we here very loosely ...) > > How do we get something like this started? > A person willing to coordinate and lead -- Keith ? :-) would be a start ... /Marco > Keith Moore