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Good Guys 2, Spammers 0
JoeJob writes "A couple of victories in the legal war against spammers. First, a Washington resident has been awarded a $250,000 decision against a spammer that sent him 58,000 copies of a spam. Second, looks like the spammers who are trying to sue Spamhaus, SPEWS, and other spam blacklists have decided to tuck their tails and run. Let's hope this trend continues." If you care to celebrate this, one food springs to mind.
i won't be happy until there is no spam at all.... That, or capital punishment. Nothing like deterring spam with a good caneing. Anyone who recieves a copy of the spam gets to give the offender a whack. In extreme cases (porn sent to childrens email address, etc.) the spammer is sent to a federal -pound me in the ass- prison. Don't even ask about what happens for the penis enlargement senders ;)
When a group of lawyers thinks you are too sleazy to join them, then that's really saying something!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
58,000 separate offers to make $10,000 each = a lot more $$$$ than the $250,000 he got He obviously picked the wrong option in suing
...good guys: 2, Spammers 1,943,238,345,753,261 (today alone)
You can imagine my dissapointment.
According to the article, Washington State law would have allowed the guy who filed the suit to receive 29 million dollars. He only asked for a quarter million. (Presumably because it was "enough.")
I, fo' on', welcom da' new musubi cookin' overlords
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I can't wait till grand spamming is a crime.
I wish slashdot had such filters. Having to hear about someone's Bayesian filter on each and every spam story is starting to drive me nuts. It's geting as bad as beowolf, etc.
According to the article, there is an FTC commissioner named Orson Swindle.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Don't even ask about what happens for the penis enlargement senders
They are sent to Federal PMINTA Prisons, and their cellmates are given viagara and enlargment pills that work?
a Washington resident has been awarded a $250,000 decision against a spammer that sent him 58,000 copies of a spam
Somehow, I fell like I'd really like to receive a lot of SPAM now.
it seems to me more like this puts the score at "good guys: 2, spammers: 93856299376591".
maybe I'm just pessimistic?
A new multilevel marketing business...
Here's how:
1) Move to Washington state.
2) Set up an email account.
3) Populate the web with your email address.
4) Collect the spam.
5) Sue for thousands.
LOL! That made me almost spew coffee all over my laptop, and I'm not even drinking coffee.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Make the RIAA copyright "pen1s enlargement", "v14gr4" and stuff.
Now, what will happen if they send (not share) thousands of copies of it
Im all too happy with that
how long until
Don't worry. I just signed you up for a whole lot more
is to make my email as public as possible and hope to win a settlement...$250k should cover my $40k/year education plus a little grad school quite nicely....
goaheadandtryme@elinxubox.com
go ahead try...I'll see you in court
Brian
Your right to speak (including sending spam) ends at the point where I decide I don't want to hear it any more.
I then, to prove a point, revoke your right to speak as I don't want to hear it anymore.
Thank you, and have a nice lifetime of quiet solitude. I appreciate it.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
But... but...
Damn...
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
How appropriate, that an article about spam would be submitted by a user named JoeJob.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.