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Spammers Stoop To New Low
mathowie writes "I received an unsolicited spam this week from MonsterHut, extolling the virtues of their "products" which are "email marketing" (they're a spam cannon). After reporting it at Spamcop, I received an interesting email from their bandwidth host. It seems that before they could cancel MonsterHut's account for violating their terms of service, MonsterHut began suing them. The worst part? A judge granted MonsterHut a temporary restraining order, forcing Paetec to keep their site online while they continue spamming, before Paetec even knew about the suit. Paetec is collecting affadavits from people that received the spam, so if you did, fill one out. It may be their only chance against the court. How far will spammers go to get their word out? When's it going to stop?"
This is the LAST thing we need.. spammers being allowed to bully ISPs/upstream providers around and using the court system to do so. What kind of a judge would allow something like that? I haven't read the .pdf files yet (I'm pissed at Adobe still, and I axed Acrobat Reader) but I can't imagine a sane person actually letting something like that happen. :(
This is a job for the A-Team..or 12 angry machete swinging Samoans.
I think he might have been refering to all their (open) security holes.
"We have by far the most open system!"
John Franks, Head of EU law, Microsoft.
And that's not true? Think back just a couple of weeks and you're going to remember all the hoopla about CodeRed ... and the various e-mail viruses...and ... err ... never mind then. :-)
Oh, he had something else in mind
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." A. Huxley
http://www.monsterhut.com/our_lists.htm:
"All of our email lists are permission based. Our lists have been cultivated through list broker alliances and affinity agreements that we have established."
Translation:
"We didn't ask permission, but we don't feel guilty about that. Our lists were purchased in bulk on CD-Rs in exchange for sexual favours. We hope to aquire more CD-Rs as it's the only sex we get."
No one said you have to use an Adobe product to view the output of one.
Try telling that to Dmitry Sklyarov.
I thought it was pretty much accepted that drowning is one of the more serene and peaceful ways to die.
:-)
How about removing their skin with a belt sander, then packing them in salt?
Ever seen a commercial bacon slicer operate? All kinds of interesting things come to mind.
Or, just let them bleed to death through a massive open wound where their genitalia used to be.
Not saying that I'd ever do these things to a spammer myself, but I might watch it on pay-per-view.
use 1-800-collect to call them and for your name just say "you suck"