Hi,

I agree with Brian, moving to a news group won't solve the spaming problem.

I seem to remember that in the US people have sucessfully charged companies
who phone them up trying to sell stuff. The way it worked if I remember was:

You have you name down on a list of people who didn't want to be bugged by
sales people phoning up.
By a company phoneing you they were using Your telephone which YOU paid for
to do thier business. Similar idea to stealing electricy.
The companies had to pay out 500 dollars each time they phoned someone who
had specifically asked not to be phoned.

I'm sure the precident would apply to computers and spaming too.

David
dj-eastl@uwe.ac.uk