Prosecuting A Spam Artist

ronmon writes: "DSLReports has discovered evidence of a creative Spammer / Data Miner who has managed to glean email addresses from their member's information pages. Apparently someone has gotten around to writing a script that decodes obfuscated addresses like imasobATspam_centralDOTcom, which was only a matter of time. Server logs show well over half a million requests from several IPs in a specific block and they have been advised that they are in a good postion to prosecute. They're asking for legal help, so any of you good hearted lawyers out there looking to boost your karma, here's your chance :)"

Comments

You know, I don't think spam is all bad.

[Anton Anatopopov]

Sometimes, you get something through the snail mail that actually interests you. Occasionally those carefully targetted advertizing campaigns actually hit the mark.

Now I am not trying to apologize for irresponsible spammers, but you have to admit, some spam is actually interesting. I am talking about the mailings from corporations whose product you have bought in the past, and who you might be interested in dealing with again.

So before jumping on the spam==bad bandwagon, stop for a minute and think. Is it really bad ? Or are you just being a bit of a whiner...