I've also had numerous 'spamm' victims quote this to me over the years.
Mark Wilson
Net Direct
At 4:34 PM 9/6/96, MegaZone wrote:
>Once upon a time sysop@nconline.com shaped the electrons to say...
>>If my memory serves me correctly I have read someplace that it is
>>illegal to send unsolicated email to someone. Is this true? What can you
>
>No, it is not true. There is no law that explicitly forbids unsolicited
>email - which is a damn goog thing, or the Internet would break down. How
>would anyone initiate a dialogue with anyone else via email? The first
>letter would be 'unsolicited'.
>
>>do if your competition emails all your clients trying to get them to
>>switch over?
>
>You can block email from their domain - but then you'll piss off any uses
>who have friends at the other ISP. Since it is a commercial post it is
>email spam if it goes to all of your users. So you could try complaining
>to the upstream provider that gives them their feed, some providers have
>strict rules against spamming.
>
>-MZ
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