MonsterHut Jammed for Spam

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:pattern? by bje2 · 2003-01-23 02:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

you forgot "Jabba The Hut" (Strangeled by Leia) and "Pizza The Hut" (Eats Himself)...

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OK, I'll bite by PhysicsGenius · 2003-01-23 02:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

MonsterHut is not a restaurant, the similarity of names notwithstanding. If you had RTFA, you would know that it's a big name job search site and they were spamming applicants.