Site launching to fight spam
AN Edinburgh internet expert, who has won a historic legal victory over e-mail spammers, is launching a website to help people fight unwanted junk mail.
Gordon Dick, from Newington, took action after he received two spam messages sent to his private e-mail address by an English-based company trying to sell software.
Under laws that apply both sides of the Border, sending spam e-mails can amount to breaches of both the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.
Mr Dick took legal action against the senders, Transcom Internet Services Ltd based at Henley-on-Thames. Last week, solicitors acting for the firm failed to show up at a hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and a judge awarded him 750 damages plus 618 in legal costs.
Mr Dick is launching a website called www.scotchspam.co.uk.
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