Mark Ferguson sued FriendFinder for allegedly spamming him. Ira Rothken represents FriendFinder; I sent out Ira's announcement yesterday: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03114.html Mark's reply is below. -Declan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 07:40:44 -0700 From: Charlie Oriez <coriezat_private> To: declanat_private, politechat_private Subject: Mark Ferguson replies to the FriendFinder spammer's press release -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Ferguson authorized me to forward this to you. It's on his web site at <http://www.whew.com/Media/> MARK FERGUSON and other situated similarly 410 #A Haydon Street Healdsburg, CA 95448 http://www.whew.com January 4, 2002 - HEALDSBURG, CA - Mark Ferguson and other situated similarly, i.e. California residents receiving spam from and/or on behalf of FriendFinder, Adult FriendFinder, Asian FriendFinder or any of the other Conru Interactive/Enterprises online companies that has benefited from the use of spam announced today that the Appellate Court for the State of California has upheld the California State anti-spam law. The Appellate Court of California has returned a judgement affirming your right to no longer be bombarded with forced unsolicited advertisements using your time and money while consisting mostly of pornography, pyramid schemes or other such unsavory deals. The Appellate Court of California has agreed to take control of your inbox from the spammer and return it to you, the individual citizen. The Appellate Court of California has also returned regulatory control of issues such as commerce inside the borders of California to Californians by affirming the rights of Californians to say how a company must act within California's border. This is a victory for those tired of spam and for the average individual and a great setback to those that wish to hold you hostage to your inbox and those that would destroy your civil liberties by forcing advertising on the citizenry entirely against their expressed will. = = = = = - -- Charles Oriez coriezat_private 39 34' 34.4"N / 105 00' 06.3"W ** "Come to think of it, there already are a million monkeys at a million typewriters, and usenet is _NOTHING_ like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPGFAdn+bkeP849+WEQJ2JQCgnIcKvWm54BgLsf45RvV5OcDJzkAAoJJR yc2+oy2JKqK3/UyuuNPCUPfu =uTyS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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