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Texas Goes After Student Spammer

Posted by michael on from the no-pardons dept.

A number of people wrote in with this story: "Count Texas in the growing list of states fighting spammers with CAN-SPAM. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the lawsuits today, charging a University of Texas student (and a cohort in California) with sending out millions of unsolicited commercial emails under the pseudonyms PayPerAction and Leadplex, among others. Spamhaus rates PayPerAction the #4 spammers in the world."

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  1. How to end Spam... by ralphart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The answer seems simple; get politicians' email addresses on spammers' lists. Once they feel our pain, they'll do something.

    Probably something stupid.

    1. Re:How to end Spam... by gosand · · Score: 4, Insightful
      The answer seems simple; get politicians' email addresses on spammers' lists. Once they feel our pain, they'll do something.


      1. They probably don't read their own email, if they have an email address. Their families probably do though, which leads to...


      2. In the words of Napoleon Dynamite..."they probably already ARE!" I think it is fairly safe to assume that if you have an email address, you get spam. Period.


      I think that they just have bigger fish to fry.

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  2. Re:Book em, Danno. by ralphart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    His major? Saw in the Dallas Morning News it was Philosophy. There's a sad joke somewhere in there.

  3. How did this take so long to get detected? by itpr15061 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Spam isn't all that difficult to track back, why is it taking so long for groups like this (#4 in the world) to get shut down? Is the slowdown our legal system and building the case?

  4. Re:Book em, Danno. by MachineShedFred · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know, I don't have a problem with spammers getting nailed against the wall just like everyone else; but something just occurred to me:

    Why is it when this college kid breaks a law (spam), Slashdot is ready to fire him out of a cannon, but when a different college kid breaks a different law (DMCA, DVD CSS, Apple trade secret lawsuits, insert other offense here), they rush to his defense?

    I understand the whole "freedom of information" angle, but the law is still the law... until it is repealed and there is much rejoicing.

    Besides, maybe this spam asshat was just trying to spread the freedom of v!agr@ and the lowest m0rtg@g3 rates!

    (proceed to mod me into oblivion...
    ...wait for it...
    ....now.)

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