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."

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Re:Don't Spam On Me.

[drimmeeper]

Hey I don't get spam either! I also notice that a large number of people who get spammed have a Hotmail account or they post to message boards, or give their email to who ever asks for it.

Nobody really has a right to be complaining about spam, in most cases they asked for it!(even if they don't realize it at the time) They give their addy to an untrusted entity and expect that they will not get spammed! This is outrageous!

I have to take the spammers' side of the arguement on this. First they take away the right for spammers to market their product, next they will be taking away the rights of the average citizen in regards to the net. I see this as a downward spiral.

Spammers make a lot of money, otherwise they would have no incentive to mass mail advertisments. I know that some innocents get hit hard with spam, but it mostly those who are irresponsible with their address security that comprise the bulk of spam complaints. I feel the same way about telemarketing and junksnailmail. I recieve very few junk mails and telemarketing calls. Whenever I get a telemarketer, I harrass them from the get-go and they never call back(ok maybe they call back a few times, but they get the point real fast).

If nobody ever responded to spam(or reacted to it), there would not be any spam. If anything, there should be laws against those who answer spam and give spammers their money and attention. These people are the *real* criminals in my book.

My point is that if you get spammed, 90% of the time it is your own fault so deal with it(that includes all of you Hotmailers out there too).