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Posted By: Kami <eelimak@yahoo.com> In Response To: Free advice is worth what you pay for it (the roadie)
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, at 10:56 a.m.
If there's one thing I've learned from this board it's not to mess with the roadie...LOL!
Can I have a link to your sites? I've included my email.
Thanks for your advice. I've always been one to poke at caged animals, sometimes with a really big stick ;)
> I have two web sites where I exposed over 200 spammer/scammers by telling
> the truth, posting samples of their own spam, personal details (phone
> numbers, etc.) that they themselves posted, along with photos they
> themselves put up. These sites have stood strong against four years of
> complaints to my host and to GoDaddy's abuse staff. The threatened
> lawsuits have all boiled down to bluff and bluster, except for a single
> postal letter from an attorney for one of the spammers, who had no
> standing in California, and I basically told him to pound sand. The site
> told the truth and it was all defendable.
> And that letter annoyed me enough that I did more research, found more
> dirt on his client, and tripled the length of her entry in the spammer's
> data base.
> That said, the general advice is that telling the truth is a perfect
> defense against a libel charge, **BUT** you can be sued at any time for
> just about anything, and in the US system of justice (as distinct from the
> UK) your defense bills against a frivolous lawsuit that gets thrown out of
> court won't automatically be paid by the plaintiff.
> But a web site that's a collection of links to law enforcement activity in
> regards to this perp, along with your personal testimonials, as long as
> you refrain from expanding on your conclusions that the guy's a crook,
> should be safe.
> Talk to an Internet-savvy attorney if you can afford it. If it's not worth
> that much money to you, then I'd re-evaluate if you really want to be in
> the crimininal-tweaking club. It's not always safe to poke at caged
> animals.
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