[oclug] How to catch privacy liars with Qmail

[Brad Barnett]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:58:03 -0500 (EST)
Ross Jordan <rjordan at student.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> > 
> > 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
> 

Quite possibly, and small claims court is easy for the little guy, and a
pain for the big boy.