Jan Meijer <Jan.Meijer@surfnet.nl> schrieb/wrote: >> BTW, national legislations don't seem to help much. I do get a lot of >> national spam (i.e. in German language), although German laws forbid >> sending unsolicited email (not explicitly, but the German Bundegerichts- >> hof ruled it to fall under unfair competition laws). > How many people/ISPs in Germany have actually sued German spammers? This is another problem with antispam legislation: It does not pay to sue spammers. You can only sue them individually and the damages you can get are very low (less than a cent per message). In Germany, you would have to pay several hundred EUR to bring forward an action against a spammer (which you will get back if the spammer loses the lawsuit and is not already bankrupt), which can only yield a few cents damages and an injunction that this single spammer must not send you any more spam (So you get one or two less pieces of spam per year...) Claus -- ------------------------ http://www.faerber.muc.de/ ------------------------ OpenPGP: DSS 1024/639680F0 E7A8 AADB 6C8A 2450 67EA AF68 48A5 0E63 6396 80F0