a bit of info on the bull's eye spam

[oleg kiselev <oleg@veritas.com>]

TidBits takes on spammer in court

 If you have a web page on the Internet, you are likely to be well
 acquainted with WorldTouch Network. The company sells a product
 called Bull's Eye Gold, which is a mass emailer. To market this product
 the company send unsolicited mass email, or as it is affectionately
called
 spam, to an enormous number of people on the Internet. The company uses
 a world wide web spider to collect email address on Internet web sites.
 WorldTouch then uses mail severs from large companies such as IBM,
 AT&T, or MCI to mask their origins with out the company's permission. 

 The authors of TidBits have decided to do something about it. Under a
 new Washington State law, it is illegal to send "commercial electronic
 mail messages that use a third party's Internet domain name without the
 third party's permission, misrepresent the message's point of origin,
or
 contain untrue or misleading information in the subject line." 

 The Mac orientated publication filed suit last Friday (7/17) in
Washington
 State's Superior Court. Adam C. Engst of Tidbits said he believes his
suit
 is the first to test the Washington State law, which is one of the
first
 anti-spam laws in the U.S. The Tidbits authors will provide continuing
 information as the suit develops.

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 TidBit's lawsuit info page
 <http://www.tidbits.com/anti-spam/>

 TidBITS#439/20-Jul-98
 <http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-439.html#lnk2>
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Oleg Kiselev                              oleg at veritas dot com
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