Political Spam - what can you do about it?

[Eucke Warren]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "redhat" <redhat at fayelectric.com>
To: "fedoralist" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:29 AM
Subject: OT: Political Spam - what can you do about it?


> I have a customer on our system (we're local ISP) that fancies himself
> quite the political spinmeister.  He absolutely inundates people with
> his (what I call) SPAM email.  We have received numerous complaints
> about this guy from all over the US (mostly colleges that he targets)
> requesting that this guy be shut down.  He even "attacked" me one day
> not knowing who I was and told me that he would sue us if we tried to
> take his email privileges away and gave me a link to some government
> site with various documents on what "is" email spam and what is "not"
> email spam.  Apparently (I read all of the docs) when the lawmakers
> created this anti-spam law they removed the label "spam" from anything
> that is political in nature (so they could use it themselves and be
> above the law).  It would appear that this guy has me beaten but I just
> can't stand to sit back and watch this guy annoy other domains the way
> that he does.  Does anyone else out there have any "knowledge" or
> insight on this issue or can give me a link to some good resources? I
> have already scoured the ".gov" sites and it doesn't look good.
> thanks,
> Doug

AFAIK, the whole freedom of speech thing is oriented on the Government.  The
Fed shall not abridge free speech.  That does not prevent me, as a private
citizen or company from taking action.  Our policy, as an ISP, that sending
unsolicited emails violates our AUP.  I decide...I am the one who make that
decision...not some Govt idiot.  If I decide that you violated our AUP?
Guess what..you're out of here.  We can fight it out in court.

-Eucke