If a spammer sues you it will probably be in a US federal court. You will
need an attorney who is going bill you at hundreds of dollars per hour
whether you win or lose. It could take years to resolve.
I seriously doubt whether any attorney would defend you with the
understanding that he'll get paid when you collect on your proposed
countersuit. To him, that's a separate matter which gives him the
opportunity to bill you again.
If the spammer has deeper pockets than you, you'll lose because he'll
outlast you. If you have deeper pockets than him, you probably won't get
a dime out of him by the time the thing is over. As usual in these
things, the lawyers win and everyone else loses.
This is why MAPS settled.
Bill
On 27 Mar 2002, Craig Hughes wrote:
> I still say that if they show up in court to sue anyone, they're
> exposing themselves to serious countersuits. The only reason I haven't
> sued a lot of spammers is because I don't think I'd be able to get any
> judgement against them in a place where I could show they had assets.
> If they come to me though, game on
>
> C
>
> On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 01:47, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > Matthew Cline wrote:
> > > However, if a bunch of spammers co-operated, each of them could file a
> > > seperate suit against SA in different jurisdictions, and more spammers could
> > > bring up suits when the old ones were thrown out; you can use anyone for
> > > anything, even if it ends up getting thrown out of court. If this happened
> > > enough, we'd get sued out of existence.
> >
> > We're a £100m company (an ISP, and yes we're growing, not struggling),
> > and SA is at the very heart of our anti-spam technology. Trust me - we
> > would not let SA go away.
> >
> > Matt.
> >
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