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In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction

What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws constitutional? The Virginia Supreme Court took that matter up in the case of Jeremy Jaynes, a particularly obnoxious...

Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, Spamming, Statute, Virginia, Jeremy Jaynes, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Spammer says state law is unconstitutional

Is an anti-spam law unconstitutionally infringe on free speech? That's what a former spammer is arguing to the Virginia Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted in 2003 in the nation's first felony anti-spamming case sentenced to nine years in prison. Prosecutors said...

Tags: Computer Network, Speech, Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-12

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Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment

The comments so far on the Virginia Supreme Court's invalidation of a state antispam law have been uniformly negative. One commenter, for instance, advocated spamming the opinion's author, Justice G. Steven Agee now on the federal bench. If he gets enough spam maybe he will...

Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-14

Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional

The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....

Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-13

Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spam

Fix SMTP and leave port 25 alone for the sake of spamSome points to clarify about Larry's articleHiI manage the antispam operations at Outblaze (we run mail for lycos, mail.com and a bunch of other sites - ~ 40 million users)Here are a few counterpoints to what you wrote ->...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Network technology, spam, Internet Service Provider, mailserver, SMTP, e-mail, server, SPF, IP

Discussion threads 2005-04-17

Microsoft, New York launch spam lawsuits

Microsoft, New York launch spam lawsuitsSpam Question for MSI think it's kind of funny and ironic that Microsoft suffers from so much spam, when some of the blame can probably be traced to how easy they've made it to create these mass mailings - But my question is this: ...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., spammer, spam, e-mail

Discussion threads 2003-12-18