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That massive amount of emails and donations that I got over the last 2 days can only mean one thing - I've been Slashdotted! :)
The interest I have received from Slashdot readers has been tremendous - almost overwhelming.
Unfortunately I can't respond to every email or every donation personally but I'd just like to thank everyone who donated to my legal defense fund, and even those who just sent emails of support. It means a lot, really.
I estimate that I will still have quite a legal bill, but the donations thus far have really helped relieve some of the stress.
Even those very few people who have negative things to say - keep talking, the publicity helps me more than you know :)
Unfortunately, I'm forbidden from discussing the case on the legal advise of my lawyer, so I'll just say thanks!

Thanks

-Jay Stuler
http://spamlawsuit.spamshield.org/

Well, I'm sure it'll pay for an hour or less of his lawyer's time, but I've just hit that. Since it's not (yet) legal to just shoot spammers dead, why not kill them in court? They've never, ever, won squat there.

Join me!

Well his first name is Brian so he's not the defendant in that case. ALL the addresses lead back to him though, I would guess he used a sister or wife as the CEO of that company.

Hey the six degrees of Brian Haberstroh (I did in five what can you do it in).
Website has same address as the ftc document. [http://web.archive.org/web/19961219234234/http:// www.greenhorse.com/ ] way back machines shows same address for greenhorse.com (sorry not enough slash foo to link(remember to delete the space!)).
what do you know a spam from said website. (click on cached and goto the bottom of page) note the P.O. box address.
Note the name of the company.
Notice the name of one of his companies.

read the Writ of summons. Basically the guy is being sued because he a) called the guy a criminal, b) called his company a gang of spamming criminals c) co-erced (sp?) the companies ISP to can his connection knowing full well that requiring an internet connection was vital to the companies existence.

Now i know he spoke to the ISP reporting the problem, he would probably be pissed about the spam and complained vigerously and the co-ercing the isp to terminate the account thing would possibly be dismissed, but theres a totally different kettle of fish being involved if the namecalling turns out to be true...

Good luck to the guy, i wish he had kept a lid on his temper more, it might have made this thing rollin his favour a little more.

The defendant has repeatedly contacted the third parties who provided Internet access the Plaintiff[sic], knowing that a contract existed at the time between the third party and ATRIKS, and has convinced the third parties to terminate their contracts with ATRIKS.

Thankfully, some other /.ers pointed me to this donation site. I will certainly drink some crap beer for a night and give the extra money to help this guy out!

As referenced at least once earlier in the comments, here.

should move immediately for the case to be dismissed as a frivolous lawsuit.

Details on Jay's web site and Usenet discussions like this one

> Anyone tracked down and named the lawyers yet?

Plaintiff:
Bosen and Springer, PLLC.
One New Hamsphire Ave. Suite 215
Portsmouth, NH 03801
A three-man operation. You can have a successful three-person law firm, but this combined with the fact that they spelled "Tortious" incorrectly in the complaint does tend to harm their credibility.

Defendant:
Jeremy A. Miller, Esq.
100 Hall Street; Suite 102
Concord, New Hampshire 03301
millerip.com

From the images on the defendant's website

http://spamlawsuit.spamshield.org/

quote

I am being sued by Brian Haberstroh aka Atriks Inc aka Distributed Mail Corporation.

Since at least April 2003 I have been receiving unsolicited bulk email (spam) from this group. As all spam experts will recommend, I complained to the ISP(s) supporting these spammers. As spamming is against the Terms of Service of almost every ISP, the spammers found themselves losing their accounts. They apparently are angry that spamming has become difficult for them and blame me.

I believe this is a frivilous lawsuit designed to harass and intimidate. If I can be sued simply for complaining about spammers, then anyone can be.

Hence I intend to fight this frivilous suit. But unfortunately our legal system costs money.

If you would like to help, send your checks or money orders to:
Jay Stuler
5072 Open Meadows Dr
Apt 4
Columbus, OH 43228
Paypal donations can be made to:
spamlawsuit@yahoo.com

/quote

The company making the charges is listed on ROKSO and SPEWS and sparked similar controversy with a Slashdot article last year. The defendant, Jay Stuler calls it a "frivolous lawsuit designed to harass and intimidate" and is asking for PayPal donations to help him fight it. More at Spamfo and DSL reports

He has a PayPal account setup for donations for the legal fund.
You can find more information here

This guy is a Computer Science and Engineering undergrad at Ohio State. It's wonderful that he could have influenced so much power over these people but I'm willing to bet he doesn't have much money otherwise.

Here's his site with the paypal link. There's some other goodies about the lawsuit and him on the site.

Episode V

The Spammer Strikes Back

It is a dark time for the Internet. Although Spamford Wallace has been shut down, Atriks spammers have driven the irate users from their inboxes and pursued them into court.

Evading the dreaded Distributed Mail Corporation, a group of freedom fighters led by Jay Stuler has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Ohio.

The evil lord Darth Haberstroh, obsessed with harassing young Stuler, has dispatched thousands of spambots into the far reaches of the Internet...

There is something similar to this. It's called SpamShield, and it's a Perl module that watches for a big spike in incoming connections from a particular IP. I hope to get it set up soon on the mail server I help maintain. Further details at their website:

www.spamshield.org

and at this article on OnLAMP:

Spamshield: A Perl-Based Spam Filter for Sendmail