New York Spam Ring Lawsuits

Iphtashu Fitz writes "Microsoft and the Attorney General of New York have announced multiple lawsuits against what they term as a spam ring operating throughout New York and responsible for sending billions of illegal junk e-mail. According to articles at ABCNews.com, CNet News.com and elsewhere the state of New York has filed 6 lawsuits against alleged notoriuous spammer Scotty Richter and accomplices. Richter is well known among the anti-spam community, holding the dubious distinction of being ranked number 3 on the Spamhaus Registry of Known Spam Offenders. Microsoft has seperately filed 5 other lawsuits."

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Re:Hooray!

[grasshoppa]

I just hope that they're really going for scorched earth here. It's too bad that the "YOU CAN SPAM" act doesn't have any provisions for Mitnick-style sentencing ("no computer use for X years") because I'm not entirely sure that monetary damages are going to cut it when you're dealing with assmasters like Richter.

There are reasons we are allowed the right to bare arms.

Our founder fathers, they were very far-sighted.

Bill Already giving up.

[sls1j]

Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, has publicly stated that he plans to make the fight against spam one of the software maker's top priorities.

Transalation: Quality and security, are too difficult to achieve. Well do anit-spam instead.