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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. 600 octillian spam emails per year. by FePe · · Score: 0, Troll
    The number of spam emails sent out on a year is approximately 600 octillian, where an octillian is 10^27.

    $1,599.99 * 600*10^27 = $960,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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    "Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?" -- Leo Tolstoy
  2. Re:Religious men forced to watch HOOKERS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about if we're just ashamed of the man who stole the Presidency? Would that be enough? After all, he's the one flouting our constitution and using this "War on Terror" to get himself re-elected.

    Believe me, if I had the choice I wouldn't waste a single gov't dollar on hookers to torment those men. I'd have the hookers over HERE!