FC: Man who sued alleged spammer replies to Politech post from lawyer

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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

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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 07:40:44 -0700
From: Charlie Oriez <coriez () oriez org>
To: declan () well com, politech () politechbot com
Subject: Mark Ferguson replies to the FriendFinder spammer's press release

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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     coriez () oriez org
39  34' 34.4"N / 105 00' 06.3"W
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"Come to think of it, there already are a million monkeys at a 
million typewriters, and usenet is _NOTHING_ like Shakespeare." - 
Blair Houghton.

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