Spamfighters Get A Hold Of Spammers' Incoming Mail

Posted by Hemos on Monday July 7, 2003 @01:30AM from the read-the-juicy-bits dept.

Karin Spaink writes "On July 3 2003, cyberangels.nl was obtained by Spamvrij.nl, a Dutch foundation fighting spam. Previously, the domain was owned by the infamous Cyberangels, who are majorly involved in spamming. Cyberangels felt forced to drop the domain when the ground under their feet got too hot after BBC journalist Andrew Bomford connected Dutch ISP Megaprovider to Cyberangels. Since the MX-records for cyberangels.nl now point to spamvrij.nl too, they get all Cyberangels' incoming mail: bounces, spam complaints and what have you. Have a peek: what kind of mail does a major spammer receive in the course of three days? By now, they have a very precise answer: 6305 mails. Spamvrij.nl published an analysis of those mails on its site."

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Well by mindstrm · 2003-07-07 02:42 · Score: 1, Redundant

If I move out of the house I rent, and you move in.. the junkmail is yours.. but anything addressed to ME, personally, is not, and the law agrees.

I think it's safe to say that this IS a morally questionable act.. though so is SPAM. I won't go screaming that they did this in a bad way.. but if it was anyone other than spammers.. say it was, I don't know, a doctor's website, and it was a patient mailing.. would taking that mail and publishing it be morally correct? I think we would all agree no.