http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/05/04/broadband_aadfggggec_ic/ Spam, Security, Privacy, Spyware, Phishing & Viruses from the Front Lines. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:48:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/05/04/broadband_aadfggggec_ic/#comment-784 Fri, 05 May 2006 12:31:55 +0000 http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/05/04/broadband_aadfggggec_ic/#comment-784 The class action lawsuit raises my ambivolence quotient. If people are somehow getting ripped off, the perpetrator ought to be held accountable, and the victims ought to be compensated. No ambivolence in that. But the practical working out of that scenario via the class action lawsuit is that, even if the perpetrator is held accountable, the individual victims rarely receive any notable compensation, while the attorneys involved often appear to make a killing. And that leaves me ambivolent. The class action lawsuit raises my ambivolence quotient. If people are somehow getting ripped off, the perpetrator ought to be held accountable, and the victims ought to be compensated. No ambivolence in that. But the practical working out of that scenario via the class action lawsuit is that, even if the perpetrator is held accountable, the individual victims rarely receive any notable compensation, while the attorneys involved often appear to make a killing. And that leaves me ambivolent.

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