With court decisions like this, we'll never get a handle on the flood of spam. This just legitimizes it even further. What absurd reasoning that it only constituted a one-time performance announcement and that the spammer claimed he wouldn't send it again. And? If I got a euro for every email that said "this is a one-time-mailing," I wouldn't be rich, but I'd have accumulated a pretty decent sum. And when will it finally be accepted that a performance announcement that might still be tolerable by post is definitely not tolerable by email? Every email consumes resources and incurs costs. Spam is under no circumstances tolerable. At heise online news there's the original article.