Telco Spams and Gets Huge Fine

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Telco Spams and Gets Huge Fine

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 16, 2005 @11:04PM from the can-you-spam-me-now dept.

jack_call writes "According to The Register the large German based mobilephone operator 'Debitel' was fined $359000 for (deliberately!) sending a total 48000 spam messages( mail: 36000, sms: 12000) to Danish costumers of rival company 'Telmore'. According to different Danish media outlets, they appealed immediately, mostly because the fine comes out at about a sixth of what 'Debitel' made last fiscal year after taxes."

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And now for something completely different by alexwcovington · 2005-03-16 23:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'll have spam, spam, spam, spam, eggs and spam!

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Re:1/6 is 5/6 too few by BortQ · 2005-03-16 23:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If you don't want to see sigs then turn them off in your /. preferences.

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Re:1/6 is 5/6 too few by Dogtanian · 2005-03-16 23:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If you don't want to see sigs then turn them off in your /. preferences.

Quit with the strawman arguments. They weren't complaining about sigs in general; they were complaining about advertising in sigs.

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Re:costumers by Carthag · 2005-03-16 23:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

A costumer is one who creates costumes. Still, a very common (and annoying) misspelling. I'm not going to classify it as a typo, as it appears that people believe customer actually spelled this way.
Re:Competition? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-16 23:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Im a costumer you insensitive clod!
Haaaaa-haaaa by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-16 23:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I can almost hear a clip of Nelson(from the simpsons) laughing.
Re:A thought by CrackedButter · 2005-03-17 00:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

touche

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Re:What about the spam, by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-17 00:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

thats perfectly legal. dont you read the privacy statements? it clearly says
all your privacy are belong to us!
Re:costumers by ratonu · 2005-03-17 00:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

right, but when you (me actually) misspell in a reply to a misspelled message everybody thinks it was made intentionally. anyway, i am gmt+2 so my english is somewhere between western english and far-east english.

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Re:Costumers? by iapetus · 2005-03-17 01:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You're getting picky about a typo ('costumers' for 'customers') and you don't check your own post before submitting ('people who ake their competitor's clothes')?

People who live in grass houses shouldn't throw stones, you know.

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Re:1/6 is 5/6 too few by Short+Circuit · 2005-03-17 01:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You're welcome to turn off viewing of signatures...

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Re:Ethics relating to SMS Spamming by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-17 02:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

HA HA HA HA

"evileye" is a stupid username. -caveman.

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