[TriLUG] NC spam laws?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:21, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> Hey y'all
> 
> I was recently spammed by a PA consulting company who had very 
> obviously harvested my email address off of a local Linux user group in 
> Philadelphia.  The spam was sent to my TriLUG account.  The spammer had 
> been asked once directly by email to stop spamming me, and he chose to 
> ignore that request.
> 
> So I'm thinking along the lines of filing a claim in the jurisdiction 
> that the TriLUG server sits in (Durham County?) and see if the guy even 
> bothers to show up.  I'm wondering what kind of recent legislation has 
> been enacted, if any, and if so what sorts of minimum retributions are 
> provided for?
> 
> Anyone here tried this yet?

Well, I know it apparently doesn't apply to "political" speech.  Someone
tried to sue Elizabeth Dole for spamming them and the case was dismissed
because the NC law only applies to "commercial" speech.  Other than
that, I don't know much, but would like to learn more.

Tanner
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