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Dougal Posted…

If you decide to pursue legal action, make sure that your attorney is familiar with the flowers.com case.

That one involved a spammer forging the flowers.com domain name in the return address, and flowers.com won a case against them.

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Nate Posted…

Thanks for the tip dougal. So far we are researching. I’m not sure I would persue legal action even if I could, simply because I’m not selling anything here, so it might be harder to argue without real dollar figures. Also, I’m not as interested in punative action, as I am in simply preventing it in the future (assuming that’s possible). I’ll keep folks updated if I learn more.

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Mena Posted…

movabletype.org, dollarshort.org and sixapart.com (all domains that we own) have been used quite often as originating spam addresses. I spent an entire day researching the legal ramifications of this abuse; basically, this is one of the easiest forms of spam abuse you can prosecute since their are direct laws about address forgery. However, I think that it’s not worth the effort; I too, would be very interested in hearing ways to actually prevent this for future reference. What even crazier is that I’m receiving spam daily from my husband’s account — it’s like the spammers know that he’s whitelisted in my SpamAssassin config!

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Nate Posted…

The bad news–no way to prevent it. The weird news, the web-graphics spam is completely unrelated to this site’s topic (e.g. life insurance). I’m kinda frustrated that nothing can be done about it, but also don’t see having the time/energy to go the legal route. Like Mena, I’m getting a lot of these emails too, perhaps after enough of them I’ll get fed up and call a lawyer, till then I’ll chalk it up as one of those inner seething frustrations that make each of us interesting.