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Here's a hint, Sparky: companies that aren't running ads on Monster or your local paper are hiring right now; they're looking for the right candidate, and the right one isn't a resume spammer. In fact, the smart candidate doesn't even need a resume to get an interview.

So I go to IBM.jobs, and they have their resume-submittal criteria, or whatever, for people who are interested in gaining employment.

This is a very good thing. It will keep the chaff occupied with the mistaken idea that by spamming resumes to the world is the perfect way to get a job.

Meanwhile, those of us who know how to get in the door without relying on a CV (in word format, only!) will already be negotiating salary & benes while the unwashed monkies are clapping their hands when they receive the "Thanks for contacting IBM.jobs. Your resume has been submitted and will be reviewed. We'll call you... someday, maybe" email.

maybe it was bernie shifman - isn't he from chicago?

One interesting point is that the first lawyer listed is Steven S. Richter - Snotty Scotty's daddy. Sounds like a nice family - lawyers *and* spammers.

I'm sure many of you know, but since I haven't seen it mentioned in this discussion, I'll point out that Richter was probably talking to his lawyers before filing suit on SpamCop. He's being sued by Microsoft and the New York Attorney General. Trying to cause trouble is just his way of fighting back. For more info, see the article.

Here's a copy of the original lawsuit which was filed by the world's most incompetant lawer, Mark Felstein who was hired by a bunch of Boca Raton chickenboner spammer scumbags, under the auspices of this "emarketersamerica" front. A summary of the charges is here. You can also read the defendant's item-by-item reply to the original complaint. It's quite funny, actually, and reminds me of IBM's response to SCO's bullshit where they basically state that every allegation is false to fact, other than the obvious, such as "IBM sells computers".

Except in this case, the spammer plaintifs were so incompetant that they couldn't even formulate a single complaint that had any basis in law. They also tried to file a temporary restraining order against spamhaus, which the Florida judge basically laughed at. The suit was really just a big case of harassment, and a ploy to somehow reveal the identity of the anonymous party[1] behind SPEWS -- which is not Steve Linford or Spamhaus, as a lot of these slashdot stories seem to imply. Spamhaus was just one of about 13 various mirrors that distributed the SPEWS DNS blocklist.

You can find more details here.

[1]<cough>Terry H. Gilsenan aka "Posopis Menaga" (pidgin for "postmaster")

The same spammer forged a number of other domains, including mine. I have a page about it at http://www.whitis.com/mypillsrx.htm. There is also another article available at AVN Online.

Eddy Marin, a well known spammer with a history that includes convinctions for cocain dealing, money laundering, and who was involved with pornography, seems to be behind the spam.

In the meantime, his pet lawyer, Mark Felstein, ( check out the cute picture) is suing several people who fight against spam for blacklisting "anonymous members" of his newly created EmarketersAmerica organization, and several anti-spam sites all over are being under DoS attacks.

The spammers are winning because the good guys are playing fair and honest while the spammers have no morals are are making up their own rules.

That sounds like this spam sent by Empire Towers which is run by this guy who is pictured appearing as a panelist at the FTC Spam Forum. Note that he's a convicted felon.

I try very hard to ignore spam content because the fact is that the real problem is lack of consent. Unfortunately sometimes the depths spammers sink to are just sickening. Between this and the (pre-looting) spams from Artmarket/Artprice about how terrible the war in Iraq would be for the art market and how you could reduce your risk as an investor in this market by buying their blah blah blah...

At least with child pornography there are laws that sometimes are actually enforced. There are people in prisons waiting to cut the offender's balls off and flush them down the toilet. Cowles and those art fuckers will never really be held accountable for their sick exploitation. They'll just keep slipping through the cracks.