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The Family That Spams Together Stays Together
Anonymous Coward writes "The Globe & Mail has a story about an Ontario, Canada man who is being sued, along with his father and brother, by Yahoo under the CAN-SPAM Act. The Yahoo suit claims that Eric Head, along with his father and brother, were sending out millions of spam emails per month, as well as compiling lists of email addresses to sell to other spammers. Eric's company, Gold Disk Canada Inc., gathered lists of email addresses and sold them for $29.99 for 100,000 email addresses on up to $1,599.99 for 10 million addresses."
...I mean, we are talking Canadian dollars aren't we? :p
Spam doesnt fall far from the spam tree.
Please let one of them be called 'Richard'...
because this is one set of genes I'm sure we all don't want in our genepool..
"ewww.. Spammer DNA... Gross!"
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
Oops! Look at that! I dropped a CD with 5,000 e-mail addresses! (Flash required)
wow... i never realized how cheap the addresses were. i had always hoped my address would be like worth $1. I guess I should have hoped for a penny for my address. I feel so used.
Is this the same Gold Disk from the halcyon days of the Amiga, with their magnificent PageSetter program?
How the mighty have fallen.
The best thing to do to stop the ridiculous tide of spam would surely be to force spammers to eat one can of SPAM per piece of spam sent.
Eventually, they'd all be either so scared of their SPAM punishment that no more spam was sent, or they'd be dead from SPAM poisoning. Either way, we acheive the desired effect.
I wonder if they posted a reply to the recent Ask Slashdot question about "A Family IT/Tech Business"?
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Hate me!
Spammers are stupid. Seriously. They're dumb as rocks. They're the retarded kids who never really grew up who'd sit and annoy you "Joe, joe joe joe joe joe joe.." "WHAT?" "Hi."
I'm kinda wondering whether my email addresses came in the cheapo $29.99 version, or if I qualified for the $1599.99 Deluxe package...
I say we go one further...not just the death penalty, but they die by being fed feet first into a wood chipper. That MAY server as a deterent.
Liberalism...the next best thing to thinking.
Euh, what do you want to say with that figure? You are multiplying the price of 10 million addresses with the total spam e-mail per year. That would give you:
$/address * SPAM/Year
Which resolves to something like dollarspam per addressyear. What the hell is THAT?
-- The Internet is a too slow way of doing things, you'd never do without it.
The Yahoo suit claims that Eric Head, along with his father and brother...
Please tell me that they're named Dick Head and Shit Head so I can know that I've been yelling the right names at my computer screen this whole time.
>Wow, that's a lot.That's equivalent to every single person on the planet receiving over 3 trillion spams per second.
It's a relief to know I'm not the only one.
My other machine is a lever.
Just wondering what a major spam offense gets you in punishment once proven guilty...
Perhaps making them dig anything and everything they need out of a pile of useless shit for the rest of their lives is fair... you know 50 tv remotes but only one of them has batteries.. stuff like that all over their houses.
I was crazy back when being crazy really meant something. (Charles Manson)
Strong bad gets $0.25 per e-mail!
Ugh, I think I broke my calvicus...majoras.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
A ton of us are Canadian, let's go picket their homes and businesses (the security company they run), and visit all their neighbours and their security company's clients and hand out flyers.
Maybe first we should get a friend in law enforcement to check the gun registry first, just to make sure that they don't have a stack of guns inside their front porch. And a criminal background check too, to make sure they're not the type that's "quick to anger and resort to violence".
Shoot, I'd put in $100 to put a **big-ass** ad in the area paper with their pictures saying "SPAMMERS WHO LIVE IN KITCHENER" along with links to relevant documentation and excerpts. (I'd want to be sure that any such act was adequately *solid* - ala "the truth" is the best defence against defamation and the like...)