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Good Guys 2, Spammers 0

Posted by timothy on from the except-for-the-rest-of-the-score dept.

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.

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  1. Musubi by drpentode · · Score: 5, Informative

    Spam and rice is what my Hawaiian college buddies called it. You could smell it all the way down the drom hall. And it tastes really good. Really. ;) Kind of reminds me of sushi, only saltier.

  2. First time I've heard of CAUCE by Trigun · · Score: 5, Informative

    you can sign up at their How Can I Help page, and apparently it costs nothing to join.

    If you're not in the U.S., you can sign up to their international chapters:
    EuroCAUCE - Serving the entire continent
    CAUBE.AU - Serving Australia, New Zealand, and all of the Pacific Rim
    CAUCE Canada
    CAUCE India - Serving Asia and the Indian subcontinent

    I'll be signing up today.

  3. Re:Where did they find this lawyer? by lx805 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thats the funny thing: they *DIDN'T* find the lawyer.

    Mark Felstein is not only the representing council for EMarketersAmerica, he's also their sole corporate officer, and as far as anyone can tell, their only member. The EMA was formed mere weeks before the lawsuit was filed.

    One of the defendants assertions has always been that EMarketersAmerica was formed for the sole purpose of filing the lawsuit. In fact, somewhere on the NANAE threads was a remark that Felstein admitted that he would dissolve EMarketersAmerica at his earliest opportunity once the lawsuit was resolved.

    Of course, the defendants might have a thing or two to say about that...