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Megaspammer Monsterhut Loses On Appeal
Werehatrack writes "Much jubilation was expressed in news.admin.net-abuse.email when it was learned that the long-running court battle between PaeTec and Monsterhut had reached a definitive conclusion on Friday with a New York appeals court finding in favor of PaeTec which finally allowed PaeTec to pull the plug on their least-loved customer's connectivity. PaeTec was actually somewhat restrained in its news announcement on its own website, simply noting that they had won and that they had disconnected Monsterhut."
I wish I could have been the one the one who pulled that plug...
Man, that must have felt good...
It probably went down something like this:
Lucky employee> "Bite my shiny metal ass, spammers!"
*sound of cat5 cable violently ripped out of a router*
"First lesson," Jon said. "Stick them with the pointy end."
To me, that sounds like a great reason to start an upgrade on your router infrastructure. Of course, the only router that actually needs upgrading is the one Monsterhunt is connected to. Did I mention that the tech installing the new router accidentaly dropped it, twice. Then in the process of picking it up, a forklift backed over it. Oh, Cisco routers are in short supply, it'll take 3 months to get another. We will use a win95 box with 2 NICs and some clothesline as a router and cabling till then. Oh, darn, we gotta do hourly reboots. And because we are loading every service known to man, it takes at least 55 minutes to complete booting.
I'm not trying to be funny here, but if there is a cat-v cable next to my desk, sometimes my chair will accidentaly pull it out. Hey, sometimes routers need to be upgraded. Sometimes, while pulling new cable, the older cable gets frayed and burned.
If you have a cable in my company, and I don't like you...you are hella-fucked. No matter what anyone says. I will come up with a good reason, I will pull your cable, and (if the TOS requires avalibility) I will refund your money with a big apology.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
They probably just disabled their VLAN. Not as satisfying, but, generally, people who go ripping CAT-5 cable out of patch panels like a wild monkey don't last too long as network administrators.
There are some exceptions to this rule, however.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
You know what would be a great way to deal with spammers?
Tie them up, and flog them, Inquisition-style. Every 10th hit or so, you'd stop, and tell them that this flogging isn't really torture, because they specifically asked for the flogging by sending out spam. Then you'd ask them if they'd like to "opt-out" of the flogging. When they said "yes," you could take it to mean "Yes, please flog me some more." Then you could get 5 more guys to come over and flog them too.
As a matter of fact, we could have an army of "Flog-bots" which would seek them out, and bring them to us.
Now that's poetic justice.