Lawsuit Targets Those Who Collect E-Mail Addresses
posted 8:40 am Fri April 27, 2007 - ALEXANDRIA, Va.
Project Honey Pot has collected thousands of Internet addresses that it has linked to spam harvesters, but it so far has been unable to link those addresses to an actual person.
The lawsuit names a variety of John Does as defendants, and lead attorney Jon Praed with the Internet Law Group says plaintiffs hope that the legal process will allow them to track the actual people who are harvesting the e-mail addresses.
Collecting e-mail addresses is not by itself illegal, but Praed said the plaintiffs will be able to link the harvesting to spam e-mails, which are illegal under federal and state law. Those laws allow individuals who receive unwanted spam to seek civil damages.
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