BCR Spam Policy

We are committed to free speech—but EMail spam goes too far.

If you should have received EMail that purports to originate from this domain, please be alert and do not allow spammers to fool you. There are numerous possibilities for EMail origination, among them:

1) The mail may come from the actual sender. We use proper subject lines to alert recipients that they receive mail from us. Feel free to delete any mail that does not have a subject line or some content in a subject that is unrelated to our lawyerly activities and our normal interaction with you, because it may come from a spammer. For instance, we are not in the businesses of virus alerts, quick and easy money, or spy cameras.

2) The mail may come from a spammer. Spammers find ways to use EMail addresses belonging to others and to abuse them by sending EMails with such addresses to dupe the recipient. Often, such EMail contains no subject or a subject line that is unrelated to the activities of the owner of the address.

3) The mail may come from a malicious hacker. Some such hackers combine EMails with virus payloads and existing EMail addresses belonging to third parties. Good hackers who are admirable specialists in software programming and use their abilities responsibly wouldn't do that.

4) The mail may come from an innocent third person who uses Microsoft Outlook or another vulnerable program to catalogue EMail addresses of its correspondents. A virus payload received by that person could trigger the use of the EMail database for malicious or misleading EMails, and mail sent by a virus on that person's computer could contain an address from our domain. Even if the person uses an anti-virus program, a new virus may trigger such damage before defenses against it take hold. The KLEZ virus, set to attack more aggressively on September 6 and 13, is an example.