Legal Question in Technology Law in Massachusetts

E-mail spamming

I recently got involved with an internet

site that sells e-mail lists and it was so cheap that I purchaced a list of 360 thousand e-mails and also the e-mail software to run the lists or

e-mail bombing as they call it .I found out that ISP's do not tolarate that type of e-mailing so I

signed on with different ISP's. They would shut me down after just runing 60 thousand names.and I would just go on to the next ISP and join it and

do it again. But the last ISP that I joined sent me an invoice on the list that I ran and claimed that because of my e-mails sent out they had do clean-up and the charge was $1.00 per e-mail that they had to clean up.Can they do this? and if they can what can I do about it?all I did was e-mail one letter to every person on that list. I don't see that being against the law. any info on my problem would be helpful thank you for your time.


Asked on 3/13/00, 10:35 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Stuart Williams

Re: E-mail spamming

Who is the ISP? What's in their sign-up contract? Was that fee either explicit or alluded to? What the heck do they mean by "clean-up"? Did they actually do such a thing? Did it require typing in each name by hand or something? Such a fee doesn't seem justified.

So they want to charge you about $60,000 ?

What do you sell with your e-mail messages? (I hope you made more than $60,000 from the mailing ... but I doubt it!)

As for the legality, ... give me a telephone call, at (617) 527-0050.

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Answered on 3/23/00, 2:59 pm


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