VIRGIN NET: Virgin Net issues first legal writ in attempt to stop spamming on the Net.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-20 April 1999-VIRGIN NET: Virgin Net issues first legal writ in attempt to stop spamming on the Net (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:190499 Virgin Net is to undertake the first known legal case in the UK to sue for damages for breach of contract and trespass, after a Surrey businessman persistently sent out more than a quarter of a million junk emails using a Virgin Net account.

This bulk e-mailing is commonly called "spamming" by the UK IT industry. Adrian Paris, trading under the company name ProPhoto UK sent out a series of bulk junk emails, (spam) to a large number of people, prompting thousands of complaints from the recipients of the emails and causing disruption to Virgin Net's computer system. Mr Paris first set up a Virgin...