MonsterHut Jammed for Spam

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday January 23, 2003 @02:23AM from the good-start dept.

DeAshcroft writes "Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lottie E. Wilkins has ordered MonsterHut, its CEO Todd Pelow and CTO Gary Hartl to stop behaving badly. The New York Post has a story on the ruling. The suit, brought by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in May 2002, alleges that MonsterHut sent over 500 million messages, fraudulently claiming that they were opt-in, and ignored at least 750,000 requests by consumers to be taken off their lists. Newsday also has coverage. The AG has an official release on the case. Penalty hearing is scheduled for Feb 11, 2003."

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Re:How long by curtisk · 2003-01-23 02:44 · Score: -1, Flamebait

the American government still managed to yank him into their "justice" system.
[Evil Laughter]
The American justice system is the justice system that rules the world , isn't that painfully apparent?!
[/Evil Laughter]
Now, let us show you some commercials, to soothe you.......ahhhhhhhh, there......Uncle Sam makes it all better......

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Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
Re:How long by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 02:51 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Too bad it doesn't rule the world.
Then we would have true freedom of speech in Europe (not diluted by the ridiculous ban of the so called "hate speech"), racial and religious profiling in law enforcement would be illegal (unlike in France and Germany) and intelligence agencies would have to operate under democratic supervision (unlike the French DST).
HAR HAR HAR by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 02:59 · Score: -1, Flamebait

In Soviet Russia, spam sends you! Har i r 3l337!!!!! I send spam @ u!!!! LOLZ
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2. Re:HAR HAR HAR by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 03:34 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
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Re:A Swing in the right direction by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 03:16 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Here's a wacky idea. educate the population.
That was the purpose of the "no child left behind act." But it doesn't matter, because if the population was educated, they wouldn't vote for Republicans, and so that will never be allowed to happen.

Educate them A LOT.
And the Libertarian party, out of self-preservation, would not permit this to happen.
Re:How long by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-23 03:44 · Score: -1, Flamebait

And the number of commercial jets flown into buildings in France and Germany was... how many?