On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:07:47AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Paul Johnson (baloo@ursine.dyndns.org) [030405 03:06]: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:57:36PM -0500, Kevin McKinley wrote: > > > > > > Somehow I doubt SPI is seeing very many contributions. > > > > Well, if someone at SPI took the time to track back the emails and > > bill the ISPs, they might luck out and get the cost passed on to the > > offending sender. > > It's an empty threat... Since non-subscribed people can send messages to > the list, what's making them check up on any so-called "rules". I agree that it's (mostly) an empty threat (due to the lack of someone to pay a lawyer to pursue it), but didn't somebody very recently get busted in some United State or another... Judge decided ignorance is no excuse: by using somebody's service (be it ISP, mailing listserver...) you *have agreed* to their terms of service. If you signed that agreement without reading it first, tough apples. Pay up. I think I actually read that on this list, though I can't be bothered to go fishing through the archives right now... Hmm, now here's a thought: What about a collections agency? Don't they just pay the party who's owed the money some percentage up-front, and then take their chances on actually collecting? I wonder whether it would be possible to sell a case like this to a collections agency... -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards < > Please do not | for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. < > reply off-list. | < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
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