This has some interesting implications to ISPs and companies in terms of legal requirements for keeping logs -----Forwarded Message----- >UPS Files Suit Against Spammers > >United Parcel Service of America is tackling computer spam with a federal >suit that seeks more than $1 million in damages from unnamed spammers. >Accusing spammers of using UPS' domain name and its employee and customer >lists to market sexual products, lawyers for UPS have secured an emergency >order allowing them to subpoena computer data from Internet servers to >track down and identify the offenders... > >[snip ] > >[Judge] Camp issued an emergency order in mid-June allowing UPS >limited, expedited discovery to identify and locate computer logs to track >down the spammers. In seeking the order, UPS attorneys noted that "time is >of the essence" because information needed to identify and locate the >spammers typically is maintained by Internet service providers for only a >few days. Internet Web pages advertised by the spammers "are typically >only active for a few hours or days." > > rest at: > http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1056139961199 > > messy desktop: > http://www.panix.com/~dberns/ups-vs-spammers.nylj -- Zot O'Connor http://www.ZotConsulting.com http://www.WhiteKnightHackers.com
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