OptInRealBig Wins Restraining Order On SpamCop

arikb writes "Some online newspapers are reporting that the infamous Scott Richter and his company OptInRealBig won a temporary restraining order against SpamCop. The TRO prevents SpamCop from sending complaints about OIRB to their provider or removing email addresses from the complaints it receives which regard OIRB. I think we will rue this day for years to come." Update: 05/12 16:43 GMT by T : The Ultimate Fartkno writes "HillsCap, a fed-up SpamCop user, is now organizing a class-action lawsuit to be brought against Richter and Opt-In. At least 1,000 signatures are needed, so tell your friends!"

Comments

Anti-Spammers? No

[Anonymous Coward]

I couldn't help by mention this part about Scott, after he complete defends himself from being considered a 'spammer', yet the people who go against him are.....

Scott: "Well, these anti-spammers-"

DailyShow: "Don't you mean anti-high-volume-email-deployment?"

Scott: "What?!??....that just sounds stupid, they're anti-spammers"

Mmmm.....profit

[Henrik S. Hansen]

1. Opt In Real Big!!!1

2. Receive Nigerian business proposition

3. Eagerly give out your bank account number

4. ???

5. Profit!! (for some negative value of profit)

Re:Chicken Little

[Black_Logic]

Rob: What's your personal e-mail?
Scott: It's Scottrichter422@yahoo.com
Rob: Do you mind if we put that on the screen?
Scott: I'd rather you didn't
Rob: Ok, we won't (As it's blinking on the screen.)

Pretty funny stuff.

Best movie line ("Real Genius")

[ubrgeek]

From Val Kilmer's character, Chris Knight: "Rue the day? Who talks like that?"

Re:The Root of Spam

[Anonymous Coward]

No, our inboxes will not be free til people start KILLING spammers.

And yes I am serious, spammers should receive the death penalty.

Rue? RUE?

[da3dAlus]

Inspector: "He vill rue zey day he vas born a Fraankenshtien!"
Townfolk: "What?"
Inspector: "I said 'he will rue the day he was born a Frankenstein!'"
Townfolk: "Ohhhh"

"Under the table" deal

[Woogiemonger]

I bet they bribed the judge with a penis enlargement pill.

Re:Throttling

[Alranor]

Hmm.

You might be onto something here, although, where you advocate real time throttling of spam, i'd change that to real time throttling of spammers

There, that'd solve the problem ;)

Re:Possible class-action suit against Scotty

[Anonymous Coward]

we just might be able to raze Opt-In and sow the ground with salt after it's gone.

w00t! Richter delenda est!

Re:OptIn's contact info

[BiggerIsBetter]

I think I'm going to start sending them a brick a day. i'll call it the "brick-a-day" club.

That's pretty funny. I wonder if you could send it COD too?

I reiterate

[FU_Fish]

I reiterate from the previous story. If OptInRealBig is a legitimate opt-in e-mail marketing service, then why don't they have a place anywhere on their website to opt-in?

Re:Yahoo Does alright with filtering spam

[JuggleGeek]

No, you don't understand the situation. The problem as stated by the *spammer* is that lots of people are complaining about his spam, and the spammer isn't getting to list wash those people, or verify their addresses in order to sell them to other spammers.

The reason ISP's disconnect spammers is that spam is normally against the terms of service/acceptable use policy of the ISP.

Richter does have an option to remedy the situation - he can quit harvesting and buying addresses and sending spam to them. Then the complaints will stop.

Re:The Root of Spam

[FFFish]

And therein lies the problem: evolution simply isn't working on the dolts who purchase from spam advertisers.

We need to up the ante.

Re:Chicken Little

[sfjoe]

There are some of us companies who actually do send legitimate email where the recipients are trying _to_ receive the message rather than trying to block us.

If I had a nickel for every spammer who claimed to be a legit marketer, I could retire to a place that didn't have email.
My ideal world is one where, in order to receive marketing fluff, one had to walk into the corporate offices, find the director of marketing and slap them in the face. Twice.

Re:Follow-up

[Eggplant62]

I have it mirrored here on a host with lots of bandwidth, go ahead, beat on it.

Credit reporting service is restraint of trade!

[ChaosDiscord]

So wherever I go, businesses refuse my checks, all because some stupid check clearing service got a few reports about me bouncing checks. And just because I defaulted on a few loans here and there no one will loan me any money. This is clearly restraint of trade! People shouldn't be allowed to make decisions about my trustworthiness based on my prior behavior. There certainly shouldn't be anyone tracking that information and sharing it! The information in those databases is just a bunch of random claims from various other people; there are probably errors and maybe a few malicious lies. I've got half a mind to sue these credit report services. I bet I can get an injunction against them reporting anything negative on my credit reports!

(I realize that in this particular case there are other claims, including harassment, and that credit reporting companies are scum for other reasons, but the analogy just came to me and seemed particularlly relavent.)