[oclug] How to catch privacy liars with Qmail

[Ross Jordan]

> 
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:29:48 -0500
> Derek Cunningham <cunninghamd at nosleep.ca> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar05,02 11:36, Dan Cardamore wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > > 
> > > What makes qmail so great is that you can give any company your email
> > > address, and if you ever do get spam on that address, you can
> > > /dev/null it, or report them for violation of their privacy policy.
> > >
> > 
> > You could now even take this one step further, and take them to court.
> > SPAM is illegal, and if you've got the time (and potentially the money,
> > lest you wish to represent yourself) you would probably win the case.
> > 
> > DC
> > 
> 
> I don't know where you live, but here spam isn't illegal.  

However -- breaking a privary policy may be warrant to sue.

-Ross

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