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 ;)

Comments

Can we moderate stories now?

[goon america]

Everytime we get a dupe like this, especially the < 24 hours kind, it makes me wish we could moderate stories. This kind of thing has seems like it has been happening almost daily lately. If we could moderate a story (-1 Dupe) it would make the problem go away.

Also, (-1 Troll) and (-1 Flamebait) would be nice, too.

A suggestion to avoid duplicates

[Pedrito]

Come on Taco, you guys can code. Simply write a routine to do some sort of word comparison between the story you're publishing, and say the last week's worth of stories. Any stories with a number of matches above a certain threshold would show you the list of "similar" articles. You could then probably tell from the headline alone if the story you're posting is a duplicate or not. How tough would that be?