Spammers Threaten Techdirt With Lawsuit

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Spammers Threaten Techdirt With Lawsuit

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 28, 2003 @12:00AM from the the-cases-move-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Found over at Declan McCullough's Politech, some spammers who had been written up in the NY Times found their contact info displayed on Techdirt, after they wrote about the NY Times story. Apparently, someone was trying to pull a Ralsky on the spammers. The spammers got pissed off and threatened to sue Techdirt - even though all the info was publicly available and other court cases have shown it's legal to post spammer's contact information. Techdirt, interestingly, took the contact info down because they feel that no one should get spammed. I'm kind of torn on this one. On the one hand, I respect Techdirt for taking such a stand, but on the other, I feel that the spammers clearly deserve to be spammed back. The fact that they threatened Techdirt, despite them not having done anything wrong (it wasn't even the folks at Techdirt who posted the info - but some readers), makes me even angrier at the spammer."

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from google by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-28 00:38 · Score: 4, Informative

http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:5ZxgA2bz1tUJ: www.techdirt.com/articles/20030424/2023243_F.shtml +techdirt+spammer+times+site:techdirt.com&hl=en&ie =UTF-8

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030424/202324 3_ F.shtml

not the original, but has the links to the spammers involved.
Re:Okay, bring 'em on by akadruid · 2003-04-28 01:09 · Score: 5, Informative

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"Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything." (attrib. Joseph Stalin)
Re:Which spammers? These spammers by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-28 01:16 · Score: 5, Informative

That would be known spammer Alyxsandra Sachs 112 Catamaran St Marina Del Rey, CA 90292-5769 (310)578-1728 info@netglobalmarketing.com 323-871-2000x11 Fax Number: 323-871-0625 Albert Ahdoot aahdoot@yahoo.com
This COMES from /.! by I)_MaLaClYpSe_(I · 2003-04-28 02:02 · Score: 5, Informative

I followed the link to a cached version of the techdirt site someone linked to, and you know what?

The Address of Alyxsandra Sachs was not posted on techdirt but a link to... you guessed it, slashdot! Someone only posted this link :-).

I find this extremely funny :-)
Re:You have the money? by minus_273 · 2003-04-28 02:14 · Score: 4, Informative

ah you mean this:

Sachs, Alyxsandra

112 Catamaran St
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
(310) 578-1728

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The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
the address of the other two by abhisarda · 2003-04-28 04:13 · Score: 5, Informative

Registrant:
Albert Ahdoot (NETGLOBALMARKETING-COM-DOM)
Net Global Marketing Inc.
18375 Ventura Blvd
Suite 326
Tarzana, CA 91356
USA
3238459660
2069841344
aahdoot@yahoo. com

Domain Name: NETGLOBALMARKETING.COM

Administrative Contact:
Richard Stewart support@usmnet.net
219 North Main
Suite 210
Bryan, TX 77803
USA
9798222827