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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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