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The most effective spam fighting effort is totally anonymous; they have to be, because that's the only way they can avoid being sued into oblivion by deep-pocketed croporations (it's outright ironic that in order to protect their freedom of speech - saying that so-and-so is a spammer, they have to register their domain in Siberia, of all places!!!)

Spammers are outright criminals and will stop at nothing to damage antispammers.

Plenty of people had a load of trouble from a spectacularly inept spammer.

For example, the author of this page (a page denouncing the spammer) had the spammer complain to the police which launched a criminal investigation that found nothing. After this failed, he barrages everyone who mirrors the page with complaints to their ISPs (this page get 5 DMCA takedown notices PER DAY).

When the police complaints did lead nowhere, he simply harassed various police departments.

Finally, seeing that the takedown notice make the mirrorers rotating the hosting of the relevant parts complained about, thus rendering it totally ineffective, he started to try to DDOs the sites hosting the pages.

Many of the mirrorers would never had been able to denounce that particular spammer if they had been doing so under their real identities; anonymity is particularly vital when dealing with criminals, or lawsuit-happy individuals.

Another example is this well-known spammer, threatening legal action against antispam fighters. If you follow the thread, you will find a frothing lunatic that demands the identity of several spamfighters who have to work anonymously in order to avoid the hassle of lawsuits from spammers.

In 2003, the same antispam outfit was sued by spammers. Even though the lawsuit was thrown out of court, it was not without considerable annoyance and expense to the antispammers involved.

Only absolutely positive anonymity can help protect antispammers against the spammers.

You've watched wayy too much Star Trek. The Death Penalty is neither 'primitive' nor 'barbaric'. It is, in fact, the honest response to the fact that sometimes people can do things for which there is no recompense and after which that person can never again be trusted to act as a human being. The Death Penalty isn't primarily a 'deterrent', it isn't a 'punishment', it's the best means of insuring that a person who has utterly broken from civilization and proven so through his actions can never again harm an innocent person.

What can you say of a society that pretends there is 'some good in all of us', or that evil people deserve 'mercy'? Or worse yet, that there is no such thing as 'good' or 'evil'? Is that 'advanced'? Is that 'enlightened'?

The idea that only a 'primitive' society could still have the Death Penalty is bizarre, bordering on the contemptibly stupid.

In other words, I'm sure it's all the rage on college campuses.

I love this part:

OptIn is in the business of sending email advertisements to consumers who ... indirectly subscribe by giving their express or implied consent through visitation to various websites.

Yup, you heard the man. Just visiting a website is enough to consent to receive spam. What these "various websites" are, or how a website determines a visitor's email address is left as an exercise for the reader.

By reading this post, you give your implied consent for me to hit you in the face with a cream pie.

You should tell that to Louisiana spammer Ronnie Scelson, he seems to think that it's okay. But then he also thinks spamming is okay, and that Scooby-Doo is very deep.

Posting anonymous to keep my karma in tact...

USAToday has a story about the 'Cajun King of Spam', Ronnie Scelson. Mr. Scelson claims that he sends 60 to 70 million emails a day (or 2 billion a month) while claiming 'What I do is not illegal. It's the people who spam sex, Viagra and get-rich-quick schemes that give commercial e-mailers a bad name.' Apparently, he didn't hear what happend to Alan Ralsky when he began bragging about his 'success'.

Should be "defendants"

Also, here's some amusing dirt on the lawyer who filed the suit (and registered the EMarketersAmerica domain.)

Cards? That so 20th century... now we play Internet games, like "Spamcentration"!!

So, who can get under 2 minutes?

That's not a link. That's a URL.
This is a link.

He's made a few modifications to reflect the business that he runs from his house. (Hope he's got a business licence for that.) Enjoy!

I guess you're all interested in this, ok, more or less :) Yes, the Jaguar actually followed the spotter and he got threaten on his voice mailbox. Mirrors here.

Fecyk quotes a PGP signed agreement. Unfortunately, he (or perhaps his mail client) has stripped off the signature itself.

The signature on the argument would carry more weight if he left the signature intact so others could verify it from themselves.