OFFTOPIC: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it?

[Moish]

Amit Aronovitch wrote:
> According to a couple of recent Hebrew spams that I got, there's a 
> loophole allowing ONE spam message per spammer per email address. They 
> say that the law allows sending one message if it is an offer for 
> registration to a publicity list (they can't send you more if you do not 
> respond), so basically if the message contains some link saying "go here 
> to get more such offers", you'd have to collect at least two different 
> spams from the same publisher in order to sue.
> 
> I did not read the law so I do not know if this is true or not (I did 
> read the spams, because they had an angry/offended tone, which was amusing).
> 
> - Amit
> 

IAMNAL

1. Go to http://www.isoc.org.il/spam and read the law
2. The relevant source here is the Spammer, not the address
    nor the technology.
3. The content matters only to determine if it will promote commercial
    goals of the spammers. So if a link in a message does that by
    refering to a downstream site, it doesn't matter.
4. If the receipient is not a business, then any number of messages
    greater than zero is spam, otherwise greater than one.

-- 
Moish