Legal Question in Technology Law in Illinois

email harassment

i asked someone not to email me but they keep doing it, can non-commercial anti-spam laws be used to sue


Asked on 5/09/09, 9:19 am

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ERIC WACHSPRESS ERIC S. WACHSPRESS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

Re: email harassment

According to the FCC web site, the federal CAN-SPAM Act only applies to commercial messages, those for which the primary purpose is to advertise or promote a commercial product or service. I am unfamiliar with non-commercial anti-spam laws. Can you just go to your Internet provider's mail site and mark this sender as "spam," thereby blocking further messages from that sender?

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Answered on 5/11/09, 5:00 pm


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