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Earthlink Wins Another Spam Award: $16 million

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-just-try-to-collect-it dept.

linuxwrangler writes "U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. awarded Earthlink $16 million and an injunction against Howard Carmack for Carmack's use of Earthlink to deliver spam. Given that Earthlink is still awaiting payment of the $25 million it won against Kahn C. Smith last year, it views the injunction as the bigger of the two wins." A few more of these, and maybe the tide of spam will eb. Maybe. Nah.

2 of 257 comments (clear)

  1. Re:That's "ebb" by KillerHamster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This isn't informative! This is someone who complains too much!

  2. Re:injunction by silentbozo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The injunction covers customers of all ISPs, or so according to the news article I read. The Wall Street Journal front column for May 7th has an excellent story on the lengths that Earthlink went to to dissuade this spammer from continuing, before finally resorting to tracking his ass down and suing him.