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Spammers Sue Spam Victim For $4 Million
fronck writes "Self-declared anti-spammer Mark Mumma, a web hosting and email service provider, has apparently been sued for just under $4 million by cruise.com and their parent company Omega World Travel after they were ordered to stop sending him emails and comply with Oklahoma's CAN-SPAM act. Mumma intends to see the trial through court and meanwhile the spam continues unabated. More insight available at Ars Technica."
Spammers sue you!
Wow. This /. article is a pretty good ad for cruise.com. ;)
PepperHacks - Hacking the Pepper Pad
It makes it all that much easier to find them, and a whole hell of a lot more enjoyable to fuck them up.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Or at least charge him less, geez.
Cruise.com has filled in the blank in the chain of:
1) Spam
2) ???
3) Profit!!!
It's SUE!!!!
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
Why not make that a link in the article description. Then we can slashdot them and drive up their bandwidth bill to $4million.
In capitalist U.S.A.,
spammers sue you!
Dude, that's so untrue - america is the land of the free, that kind of thing doesn't happen in real life, just in hypothetical situations - it's like worrying about government monitoring, it's totally cool and safe, i'm sure they'll never abuse it, you just need to be more trusting!
Just look at the name of the law... CAN-SPAM
Well, just remove all the safety labels from everything and let the problem solve itself.
Thanks for the referral! I've been looking for a way to plan my next vacation, so I'll have to try these fine companies out.
This might be a case where that's possible. In order for that to happen (in the US), a judge needs to rule that a suit is frivolous, meaning that it's so obviously bogus that the Plaintiff should not have even considered filing it.
Not a lawyer, blah blah blah blah ham sandwich.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Just like the judge smacked down the suit against Oreo cookies making people fat?
:-o
Oreo's can make you fat?!?
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
"suit against Oreo cookies making people fat?"
What?!?! All this time I just thought I had big bones.
"suit against Oreo cookies making people fat?"
What?!?! All this time I just thought I had big bones.
You are just big-boned. Oreos are unusually high in Calcium.
Thanks to the internet, we can now all die alone together! -SomeWoman
do you have any recommendations of websites for that?
If you get your medical advice from the web, get ready to sue someone.
"People like this are the reason why[sic] the general community can't take the open source community seriously."
Firstly: people don't take open source seriously? On my planet, open source is taken quite seriously and doing very well. Tip: Google, Yahoo, Oracle, Netcraft, etc.... Is this your first time on Slashdot, or have you simply not been paying attention?
Secondly: what makes you think the original poster is associated in any way with open source? What in the world made you make that association? For all you know, that post was written by an old lady sitting in an internet cafe in Dakar - what is causing you to make these unwarranted mental leaps?
"What kind of horrible thinking can possibly lead someone to want to murder another person just beucase[sic] you are receiving spam from them?"
Didn't you read the whole post? The thinking is explicitly spelled out right there. Do you have problems with comprehension?
"I may not like our current government in the USA, but in comparison to the type of tyranny and brutal violence that this person is advocating, I certianly[sic] am glad we do not have someone even more utterly evil and inhuman."
What in the WORLD does this have to do with the original post? Couldn't you at least try to stay on topic?
"This kind of attitude reminds me of North Korea's treatment of dissenters and USSR's general attitude towards human life."
As another poster has pointed out, there's a world of difference between an evil government's abuse of honest citizens and an honest person's desire to rid himself of an evil parasite.
Honestly! Please learn how to think before you speak in public, and while you're at it, brush up on your spelling and grammar, too. People like you are the reason they shouldn't connect trailer parks to the internet. :-P
> Assuming that it is the attorney's first offense, I'd be surprised if it results in disbarment or even suspension; more likely a reprimand or private cautionary letter.
IANAL, but I did a short course in law once (I'm from England). I can't remember what the case was, but it was from very old colonial days.
Anyway, it was the case where 2 highwaymen fell out with each other, and petitioned the court to resolve a dispute about how their booty should be shared.
Events didn't turn out quite to their liking, however, as it resulted in them both being hanged, and the lawyer being deported to Australia.
Now that's the way to cut through all the crap!