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AOL Wins Anti-Spam Case

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-righteous-to-me dept.

saikou writes "CNet writes in this story: 'A Virginia federal court awarded America Online nearly $7 million in damages as part of the Internet service providers' legal victory over a junk e-mail operation, AOL said Monday.' Now, given tough times we should see more and more ISPs sue (and, hopefully win) the evildoers if not for their users mailboxes sake, then for their own budget. How long until there will be a major ISP whose plans include discounts for spam-fighters? (Help us to sue every spammer than sent mail to you and get $9.95 disount on your next bill :) )"

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  1. Re:i'm so confused by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Troll
    they are responsible at least in part for Mozilla, ICQ, Winamp (which is being ported to Linux), and send free coasters as a courtesy in the mail.

    Let's see... they bought netscape (after the open source mozilla project started), bought ICQ, and bought NullSoft/Winamp. PS - there are already hundred (yes, literally) of FREE (open source) mp3 players for linux.

    They are a media conglomerate, but they are about as non-evil as they get.

    Yeah, and Stalin looks like a regular saint compared to Hitler.

    They are also Microsoft's second biggest problem, and anything that annoys them is fine by me. An enemy of an enemy...

    Read the papers some time. AOL/TW's biggest problem is AOL/TW.

    Back on topic, money seems to be the only thing spammers care about. $7 million is bound to be an eye opener

    No, they also care about enlarging your penis.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.