Wednesday, June 2, 2004

Spammer legal questions

It might be <A HREF="http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid4_gci967968,00.html">difficult to convict spammers</A> under the Can Spam Act and other state and local antispam laws, because to hold someone criminally responsible for a crime, there needs to what is known as "minimum contacts." This means that the accused has to have some kind of presence in the state in which they are convicted, and mass emails to people in a particular state might not be enough to show minimum contacts.

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