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Spamhaus Responds To Spammers' Lawsuit

Posted by timothy on from the whack-a-mole dept.

ShaiHulud-23 writes "A suit was recently filed by EMarketersAmerica.org, a fledgling secret organization of spammers, against the Spamhaus Project, (and other anti-spam sites) seeking to prevent the publication of the anonymous plaintiffs' IP addresses in the Spamhaus Block List (SBL). The suit requested a response from the named defendants, and Spamhaus director Steve Linford has provided one, dismantling the spammers' case point by point."

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  1. IANAL... by Bendy+Chief · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Someone please, please tell me there are perjury-charge meriting falsehoods in the documents filed by the spammers. The claims that Spamhaus is a commercial organization and is maliciously blocking traffic are particularly suspicious.

    After all, they got Capone for income tax.

  2. Re:These guys have no shame by Cramer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    These people piss me off...

    Billion dollar industry... blah, blah, freakin' blah. Prove the damned numbers. Unlike RIAA and MPAA, no one is going to let spammers make up their own balance sheets. There are numerous reports world wide giving hard proof of the costs brought about by all the stupid spammers. The only people who stand to be finacially injured and unemployed (and unemployable after a background check) are the asses sending all the spam.

    I'll see their billions and raise by trillions -- the costs of software development and administrator headaches addressing the problem of spam, software development and administrative overhead to block loopholes in internet protocols, ever increasing server and bandwidth needs to move, process, and store all this crap... SPAM is a very expensive problem with the burden everywhere but the spammer.

    Laws are useless unless swiftly and strictly enforced. Speeding is illegal, but that hasn't made much of a dent.

  3. For what is worth... by NomadPgmr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if ValueWeb knows that they are hosting a run by multiple spammers with the intent of promoting spam. This is in violation of #9 in their AUP. I wonder if they are aware of this??

    PING emarketersamerica.org (64.70.171.85)

    whois 64.70.171.85@whois.arin.net
    [whois.arin.net]

    OrgName: CyberGate, Inc.
    OrgID: CYBG
    Address: 3250 W. Commercial Blvd. Suite 200
    City: Ft. Lauderdale
    StateProv: FL
    PostalCode: 33309
    Country: US

    NetRange: 64.70.128.0 - 64.70.255.255
    CIDR: 64.70.128.0/17
    NetName: CYBERGATE-1
    NetHandle: NET-64-70-128-0-1
    Parent: NET-64-0-0-0-0
    NetType: Direct Allocation
    NameServer: NS.VALUEWEB.NET
    NameServer: NS2.VALUEWEB.NET
    Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
    RegDate: 2000-04-03
    Updated: 2000-11-28

    TechHandle: CN313-ARIN
    TechName: Network Administrator, CyberGate Network
    TechPhone: +1-954-334-8080
    TechEmail: netadm@valueweb.net