Re: Why Spam is a problem

[Henning Schulzrinne <hgs at cs.columbia.edu>]

Isn't that what class action lawsuits are for, i.e., combining a class 
of claimants into one law suit? Given, for example, the small-fry 
amounts in recent telecom leasing suits, one would think this would be 
fertile ground for lawyers.

Claus Färber wrote:
> Jan Meijer <Jan.Meijer at surfnet.nl> schrieb/wrote:

> 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