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Spam Emails, Spam Lawsuit: The GOP Tries To Break Gmail By Court Order
from the open-the-floodgates dept In 1872 California enacted a law declaring that “every one who offers to the public to carry persons, property, or messages, excepting only telegraphic messages, is a common carrier of whatever he thus offers to carry.” In …