That outrage can take both legal and extralegal paths. A notorious case of header forgery came to light in May 1997, when Craig Nowak, a college student, chose a return address at random for his first attempt at junk e-mail. Fortunately for the antispam cause, the enraged florist, Tracy LaQuey Parker, launched a lawsuit for damages and was supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Texas Internet Service Providers Association. A different sort of response occurred in December 1994, as told by an anonymous writer in Network World. Without knowing that he was violating standards, he posted a message about his company s products on about a dozen Usenet groups.
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