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Spammer Bows to Lawsuit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the please-bow-lower-next-time dept.

Compulawyer writes "The Washington Post is reporting in this article that spammer Alan Ralsky has agreed to stop sending spam over Verizon's lines and to pay Verizon an undisclosed sum of money. Although Ralsky denies any liability, this sounds like a clear win for Verizon to me."

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  1. Re:One gone... by fmaxwell · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "Ralsky said he doesn't send offers for pornography or any messages to people who indicate they don't want them."

    I guess that the above statement "could" be legit - but I bet it's more bullshit than anything else


    So some ten year old kid gets spam advertising "Fantasy Black: Hot ebony sluts who love gettin' their salad tossed" (taken from an actual ad) and, after being horrified by pictures of tongues in rectums, he can then click on a link to "opt-out." Or someone can get that at their job and have IS report to their boss that they have been for visiting the site -- when it was just their HTML e-mail client picking up the pictures from the web site. (Note: Don't lecture me about how e-mail clients should not do that. I agree, but Joe Average uses the e-mail client he's told to at work.)

    There is never an appropriate time to send unsolicited commercial e-mail of any kind -- but that is especially true of porn spam. The sender has no idea whether the recipient is a 20-something guy, an elementary school kid, or an elderly nun. I'd like to see the spammers that send this kind of stuff to little kids be prosecuted just like they would be if they were handing out hardcore porn magazines to little kids in shopping malls.