I must note that reading that page makes me somewhat optimistic/hopeful.
First - there is some appreciation of this (local) phenomenon called spam, and even from some law aware organization (portal/info site - whatever). This is not to be underestimated considering our country's mentality, where for example, bad, ignorant customer service is being taken as an unresolved-fact with apathy (just to name one example...).
Second, although my poor formal law expertise, that fax special(?) section in the Bezeq law does seem to "have a case" when taken onto the email field. Same seems to me with other examples there. I guess all we need to do is to wait for some more irritating spams from that company that was described in other threads here lately (no free ads, sorry :-), to make some computer aware lawyer raise the (local) glove... .
Oh, and in some other occasion, that story of the spammer who made all the replies to him bounce to all spammed accounts once again, could have been really funny, wasn't it?... ;-)
Boaz.
-----Original Message-----
From: Baruch Even [mailto:baruch@ev-en.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:48 PM
To: IGLU
Subject: [OT] - Spam under israeli law
Hello,
Being interested in the topic, I've been searching lately for
information on what can be done regarding spam under Israeli law.
One good summarizing article on this can be found at:
http://www.law.co.il/hebarticles/spam.htm
It describes several laws under which spam senders can be sued, now I
only need to get a job to finance such a lawsuit, and get another
israeli spam to sue for.
Anyone ever bothered to attempt such a thing?
I believe that by actively demanding our rights and costing the spammers
money we can try to remove or at least reduce the occurence of spam in
our mailboxes.
--
Baruch Even
http://baruch.ev-en.org/
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