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Published Date: 05 March 2007
AN Edinburgh internet expert, who has won a historic legal victory over e-mail spammers, is launching a website to help people fight unwanted junk mail.
Gordon Dick, from Newington, took action after he received two spam messages sent to his private e-mail address by an English-based company trying to sell software.

Under laws that apply both sides of the Border, sending spam e-mails can amount to breaches of both the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.

Mr Dick took legal action against the senders, Transcom Internet Services Ltd based at Henley-on-Thames. Last week, solicitors acting for the firm failed to show up at a hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and a judge awarded him £750 damages plus £618 in legal costs.

Mr Dick is launching a website called www.scotchspam.co.uk.



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  • Last Updated: 05 March 2007 3:07 PM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Spam messages
 
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Livingston 05/03/2007 17:36:51

Ocht - and I thought this article was gonna be about some young computer geek trying to ban they new Spam fritters they're advertisin!!!!

2

Suck-McCrunchie,

05/03/2007 20:08:23

Copied from my company's mailserver file for February...

Inbox (1794)
Sent Mail (573)
Drafts (10)
Spam (12131)
Deleted Items (

Congratulations Mr Dick!

If you actually receive payment from your spammers - then I can stop working and live off my spam recipient income.

3

I'm no really here,

05/03/2007 21:02:58

That English company can't be too good. They don't know how to send spam. It's usually sent from an anonymous, temporary e-mail address that doesn't exist when you reply to it.

4

I'm no really here,

05/03/2007 21:10:10

This is all fine if the offender is a UK based company. Won't work for those based abroad who do not fall under UK Law. You could try prosecuting them in their own country, under their own laws, if they have any. And for what? I have a spam filter that learns what is spam and what is not, and moves them to the trash can. Most of the time I don't even see them.


 

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