We’ve all heard of AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Earthlink. And Aunty has noted many times on these pages the lawsuits which they have each, and together, instituted against spammers over the course of this past year. Good on ya, says Aunty.

But it isn’t just big, well-known ISPs who can bring legal action against spammers (indeed, Aunty believes that anyone who runs their own mailserver can qualify to sue spammers under CAN-SPAM, wailings and gnashing of teeth against to the contrary).

Robert Kramer, who works for an unidentified Iowa organization (although sources say that it is related to local law enforcement), brought a lawsuit on his company’s behalf against a total of 300 spammers who were spamming his server to the tune of as much as 10million pieces of spam a day back in 2000 (the server provides email for his company to about 5000 users).

When all was said and done… [Continued...]