[plug] [link] Time to move to the US, methinks

[Leon Brooks]

There's gold in them thar emails!

    http://www.linxnet.com/misc/spam/mi_spamsuit.html

<quote>
Essentially, I argued that under the title code, my computer is also a fax 
machine and that email is really no different from fax. My computer has a fax 
modem, fax software, a scanner and a printer, I received this email using a 
dial up phone line connection and printed the message. As such, it falls 
under the law. The term ''telephone facsimile machine'' means equipment which 
has the capacity (A) to transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into 
an electronic signal and to transmit that signal over a regular telephone 
line, or (B) to transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic signal 
received over a regular telephone line onto paper. 

It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States - . . . (C) to 
use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an 
unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine; A person or 
entity may, if otherwise permitted by the laws or rules of court of a State, 
bring in an appropriate court of that State - (A) an action based on a 
violation of this subsection or the regulations prescribed under this 
subsection to enjoin such violation, (B) an action to recover for actual 
monetary loss from such a violation, or to receive $500 in damages for each 
such violation, whichever is greater, or (C) both such actions. If the court 
finds that the defendant willfully or knowingly violated this subsection or 
the regulations prescribed under this subsection, the court may, in its 
discretion, increase the amount of the award to an amount equal to not more 
than 3 times the amount available under subparagraph (B) of this paragraph.
</quote>

I note that it is illegal to do the sending from the US, no mention is made 
regarding where the sending is _to_. (-:

One of these a working day is USD$2500 a week...roughly USD$120,000 a year...

Cheers; Leon