On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:10:57 +1200 (NZST), Simon Lyall wrote:
Please make sure you warn your accounts people about this guy. This is at least his 4th ISP. I have the name of the police contact for this person somewhere if people want to contact me directly. I'll hunt out my old files on this guy tomorrow.
I also had someone contact me asking what can be done about this guy.
The headers of the e-mail they received are below.
As one can see he seems to have sent this one through a Brazilian ISP
which may not be too responsive to spam complaints from NZers.
Simon alluded to a police contact on this guy - is this related to
spamming or other activities? The reason I am asking is the issue of
how to stop him if the Brazilian ISP is unco-operative.
His e-mail database is almost certainly a breach of the Privacy Act.
However a complaint can take 12 - 18 months to resolve. Do people
feel there would be merit in having a formal complaint filed just so
one can get "case law" on the books??
Another issue is whether we should lobby Parliament for specific
statute law banning spam? Up until now I have not thought it is
necessary as every ISP I know of in NZ (possible exception of
world-net?) bans spammers, but if NZers have easy access to overseas
ISPs then maybe it is worthwhile? Opinions welcome.
DPF
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