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AOL Awarded Millions in Spam Case
c.derby writes "MSNBC.com is running a story that says: " 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."
The company said the legal decision should send a warning to junk e-mailers.
"This is an important legal victory in the fight against spam," Randall Boe, AOL general counsel, said in a statement. "It sends a clear, distinct message to spammers: AOL is prepared to use all of the legal and technological tools available to shut down spammers."
" 145 pieces of spam so far today. Can I have a piece of the 7 million? (oops, duplicate. Oh well. It's still good ;)
I'd just as soon we didn't do this. Why, you ask? Repeat after me: NOT ALL SLASHDOT READERS SIT AT THEIR DESKS 24-7, REFRESHING EVERY 30 SECONDS.
Many duplicate stories I never see the first time around, simply because (gasp!) hours or even days can go by before I visit Slashdot again. For those like me, it's a chance to check out something cool.
For everyone else, y'all seem to jump on the 'it's a dupe, let's kill the editors again' bandwagon fast enough, so you must be recognizing these duplicate stories pretty fast. What's the harm? It's not like you have to read EVERY story.
The only seemingly valid complaint I see from people is 'my story got rejected cuz they keep posting dupes' - boo hoo. The next person that whines about their story being rejected should be shot full of (-1, Troll). Don't like the story submission process? Start your own site.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Not quite, you dolt... the actual number of posts, counting al the sections (apache, apple, ask, books, bsd, etc.) is much closer to 30 to 40.
I was thinking of the front page only. But 10 or 50, it makes no difference to my point. It's a tiny amount of data.
Dolt? FOAD.