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."

Comments

Lunacy.

[Latent IT]

Just so everyone knows, this case has been dragging on since 3/01. Over a year, in which Monsterhut had unlimitied spamming rights on an ISP's network, actually against their will.

It's so odd. The US is the most litigious nation, worldwide, and yet we STILL suck at it.

Extreemly unlikely they will..

[autopr0n]

Considering they sued the last one. I mean, would you hook these people up, knowing that you'd be lining yourself up for a good round of lawyering?

Use Pyzor - Spamming becomes pointless

[Moderation abuser]

The more people and ISPs who start using software like Pyzor the more pointless spam becomes. It routes directly to a spam mailbox completely bypassing potential customers.

http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/

The more users it has, the more effective it becomes. Pyzor uses a central database of spam hashes to compare incoming mail against. If the hash of the body of the incoming mail matches an entry in the database then it's a spam. Discard it.

Sure someone will followup to say that they'll include random characters in each individual mail to change the hash values or they'll change parts of the message on each mail. Yes the authors are aware of this and the software already takes this into account.