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The Family That Spams Together Stays Together

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-just-bizarre dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Dupe by Kazymyr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The upside is that I only need to read Slashdot every 2-3 days now, with all the duplicates we've been having lately. Saves a lot of time.

    --
    I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet -Stanislaw Lem
  2. Re:Dupe by dAzED1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    its from the 12th, actually. So...its been 4 days. Do you expect them to remember something from 4 days ago, when there's so many anti-M$ posts in between? That's quite unreasonable of you ;)

    Cripes, I hate M$ as much as anyone else who has used linux and unix exclusively since 1995, but geezus...they get slammed for bugs, get slammed for fixing bugs...we all know the bugs are there! We don't need to hear about it 100 times a day!

    They just like filler nowadays, apparently. The more posts about spam and M$ they can do, the better. Ah, the good old days when there wasn't 1000 posts a day on /., and when they weren't all whining.

  3. Re:ForEx by roninmagus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now Kerry can magically increase the value of the USD, as well?

    I'll put that along with the millions of jobs he'll pull out of his hat.

    I do agree with you though that GW does spend quite a bit.