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                             A message to a spammer
                                        
Spam is pretty much a constant now but for some reason this particular piece
of spam got on my nerves: 

> From: none@conman.org
> Reply-To: none@conman.org
> To: sean@conman.org
> Subject: none
> Sender: none@conman.org
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:29:42 -0500
> 
> ——you are recieving this message because you responded to a posted
> advertisement. if you are recieving this and did not respond to an
> advertisement please send an e-mail to m0neyhungry_19@yahoo.com to be
> REMOVED——— 
> 
> Dear Friend, 
> 
> I am looking for 10 people that are willing to dedicate 5-15 hours a week.
> I will personally be there, every step of the way, to assist you on your
> journey, whether your goals include more free time, more money in your
> pocket, or just overall happiness, I would like to help you. 
> 

Blah blah blah. It goes on and I'm not going to waste space here sending out
this person's message of wealth and happiness. So a little bit of searching,
and I find Spam Laws, [1] a site that has all the current anti-spam
legislation currently enacted or being worked on. Quite a nice site and it
allowed me to send the following back to the spammer: 

> To whom it may concern: 
> 
> I did not wish to receive this information, nor have I responded to a
> posted advertisement from this address. I wish to advise you that you are
> fortunate in having sent this email from a facility located in Indiana,
> which has no current laws against unsolicited email, to a facility located
> in Florida, which has no current laws against unsolicited email that apply
> in this case. But a majority of the states have enacted laws against
> unsolicited email that make you liable for criminal prosecution, especially
> in reguards to forged headers and routing information: 
> 
> > Return-Path: <none>
> > Received: from yourwebsite.com (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX[XXXXXXXXXXXXXX])
> >         by conman.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA03767 for
> >         <sean@conman.org>; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:29:43 -0500
> > From: none@conman.org
> > Message-Id: <200203080329.WAA03767@conman.org>
> > Reply-To: none@conman.org
> > To: sean@conman.org
> > Subject: none
> > Sender: none@conman.org
> > Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:29:42 -0500
> > 
> 
> You have currently forged the email from a user on this system (whether it
> is a real account or not is irrelevent—this is plainly a forged header)
> which, had I or you been in Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
> Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode
> Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington or West Virginia you could have
> faced criminal charges. Furthermore, under California, Colorado, Illinois,
> Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia or Wisconsin you
> may face criminal charges for misleading or mislabeling the email on the
> subject line, as you clearly have done above. 
> 
> On the other hand, if I can prove that your email message was routed
> through any network in Iowa you may be liable under Iowa law section 714E.1
> subsection 5 but truth be told it may be difficult actually conduct such a
> case, but it is possible. 
> 
> I do request that you remove the email address “sean@conman.org” from your
> list as I do not wish to receive any futher unsolicited email from you. 
> 
> Thank you for your time and consideration of this matter. 
> 
> Sean Conner 
> 

I can't wait to see the response to this. 

[1] http://www.spamlaws.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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