Anti-spam policy

Per section 17538.45 of the United States Business and Professions code, we may set a policy regarding unsolicited electronic mail advertisements. Violations of this policy will result in damages of $25 000 per mail message or actual damage, whichever is greater.

This site's policy is: Unsolicited electronic mail advertisements are not accepted here. Harvesting of email addresses from this web site for the purposes of unsolicited emails is expressly prohibited.

It is the policy of Encyclopedia Mythica to fight spam in any way available, including but not limited to:
Posting, forwarding and publicly displaying the spam, sending copies to any and all postmasters involved, sending copies to any and all persons listed as administrative, technical, and billing contact according to the current WHOIS database for the offending site(s), sending copies to upstream providers, blocking individual known spammers and blocking entire offending domains.

• Fraudulent and/or deceptive e-mail will be forwarded to the Federal Trade Commission for investigation and possible legal action.
• Unauthorized Bulk Emails that seem potentially illegal are reported to the FBI, to the attorney general of any state that the message claims as its origin, and to the local police.
• UBE (Unauthorized Bulk Email) is reported to your ISP and the email provider (e.g. abuse@yahoo.com)

Spam is unsolicited e-mail (or news postings) pushing a point. Be it an ad for a used PC, or an urge to vote on a proposition; if you didn't ask for it, didn't sign up on a mailing list related to it, and didn't leave your e-mail address on a web form asking for more information on it, it's spam! And if it's in your mailbox, the sender might be liable for a $5000 fine per instance. Some of those laws have been up held in court.

Most ISP's takes a zero tolerance approach to the sending of Unsolicited Bulk E-mail (UBE) or SPAM over the network. Violation of ISP's SPAM policy will result in severe penalties. Upon notification of an alleged violation of the SPAM policy, most ISP's will initiate an immediate investigation (within 48 hours of notification). During the investigation, ISP's may restrict customer access to the network to prevent further violations. If a customer is found to be in violation of the SPAM policy, ISP's may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate customer's account. Further, most ISP's reserves the right to pursue civil remedies for any costs associated with the investigation of a substantiated policy violation. ISPs will notify law enforcement officials if the violation is believed to be a criminal offense.

United States: Federal Laws: Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2001 (H.R. 95)
http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/hr95.html

United States: Federal Laws: 107th Congress
http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/list107.html