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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.

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  1. Who's next? by B3ryllium · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want them to hunt down and punish John Romero.

    I was deeply offended by the ads forced on me by ION Storm's marketing for ... what pile of tripe was it ... Daikatana, I think. Horrid.

    To Romero I say, "suck it down, bitch". I would change my opinion if he gave me a few thousand dollars, or a fun job, but until then ... lol :)

  2. 243896729876298367290387463987 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Send tobey149 an instant message on AOL instant messenger! Do it now for the good of humanity!!!!!!!
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  3. Re:That's "ebb" by shaitand · · Score: 1, Troll

    This isn't informative! This is another spelling/grammer nazi!

  4. pff... by borgdows · · Score: -1, Troll

    $16m is peanuts for Carmack... hell! he has sold millions of Doom, Quake, and other games!

    J'accuse!

  5. Re:At ~.02 per spam, that's still a bargain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And /. should charge assholes like you a quarter to open your yap to have it shattup again.

    Don't see /. encouraging your old Mom to charge now do you?