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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. Blacklists. by Tantrum420 · · Score: 0, Troll

    While I have no love for spammers or their tactics, I am happy at least that Joe Jared and his Osirusoft list is done for. Other blacklists owners were responsive and provided a genuine service. Joe is just a vindictive ass.

  2. Re:Virus Spam by dipipanone · · Score: 0, Troll

    Likely because I'm 37 years old..

    In that case, playing the game of 'Comparing the Dinkies' at your local junior high school is a somewhat inadvisable choice of recreational pastime.

    You wouldn't run the mail server for your local Catholic diocese, by any chance? ;-)

  3. Try CENSORSHIP=1 EFF=0 by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Troll

    Getting govt laws stopping spam is like getting censorship laws. And when the govt OKs them, they probably wont ever come off.

    Course the Govt has to define SPAM. Wonder how 'right' the definition is, and who the exemptions to the law are?

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  4. Worst. Analogy. Ever. by Gandhian_Rage · · Score: 0, Troll

    When will you SPEWS idiots learn?