"It's the information age --    +-----------------------------------+
   everything gets saved          |UCE/UBE not welcome at this address|
   except for the human soul."    |see http://tinyurl.com/jhb for info|
Rev. Matthew Carey, Vision Temple +-----------------------------------+

--------------------- last updated Feb. 20, 2003 ----------------------

This address (zaren at umich.edu) is one of my work accounts. I do not use this account to sign into any opt-in mailing lists or register for any contests, and I do not attend trade shows where my address might be gathered.

I do NOT authorize the delivery of any commercial messages or advertising to this account. I do not authorize the harvesting of my address off of Usenet postings for the purposes of sending me commercial e-mail. Any such messges that arrive in this mailbox will be considered unsolicited (commercial / bulk) e-mail, or "spam".

Advertising via unsolicited e-mail is trespass to chattel and theft by conversion. That was established in Federal court in 1996/97 in Compuserve vs. Cyberpromo, heard in US District Court in Ohio by one Judge Graham. Spammers routinely also use third-party relay, which is outright theft of services and a violation of the Federal Computer Crimes Act, to wit, unauthorized access to a computer system.


It is assumed that any spam sent to this address was sent after reading this policy page and accepting the terms detailed below.


Any spam that comes to this account (excluding letters of acknowledgement, compliance, or apology) may be considered a message that was requested to be archived, and a $500 fee may be charged and billed to the individual that sent the message. Billing will be performed electronically, using spreadsheets, e-mail, and Paypal as nessecary.

This fee is being charged in lieu of filing charges in State court based on a violation of Michigan Act 53 of 1979, the Fraudulent Access to Computers, Computer Systems, and Computer Networks Act, which contains the following ruling:

752.794 Prohibited access to computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network.

Sec. 4. A person shall not intentionally access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network to devise or execute a scheme or artifice with the intent to defraud or to obtain money, property, or a service by a false or fraudulent pretense, representation, or promise.

History: 1979, Act 53, Eff. Mar. 27, 1980 ;--Am. 1996, Act 326, Eff. Apr. 1, 1997 .

Please see http://michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=print&objName=mcl-act-53-of-1979 for the full listing of the Act in question.

Should the individual prove unwilling to pay, the bill may be forwarded to the ISP that the spammer used to send the message; it would be up to the ISP to recover this fee from the user that originally sent the message. I may also choose to pursue the matter in small claims court, should I deem it appropriate.