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Gates' Resolve in Bringing Spammers to Justice

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-care-about-justice-just-a-clean-inbox dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It didn't seem to me like any single company had the stomach to keep after the scum that are ruining the Net for the rest of us. Unless that company is Microsoft. Since the beginning of 2003, Microsoft has filed 96 lawsuits against spammers, and 119 lawsuits against phishers. By any measure, 215 lawsuits constitutes a legal juggernaut. "

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  1. Come off it by DrXym · · Score: 3, Informative

    All the big ISPs have been after spammers for quite a while now. I believe that AOL is owed a few million by that bankrupt spammer who featured in another /. story quite recently.

    1. Re:Come off it by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Informative
      All the big ISPs have been after spammers for quite a while now.
      Absolutely not. UUNET, the LARGEST ISP is a spamhaus and is considered a cesspool in anti-spamming circles and it is therefore thoroughly blacklisted by many antispam blacklists.
  2. Re:Didn't... by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Informative
    Didn't Bill Gates vow to rid the world of spam entirely within 2 years at some stage? I am sure I read that somewhere. Can anyone find a link to such a quote?

    You may be talking about this:

    (AP) A spam-free world by 2006? That's what Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates is promising.

    "Two years from now, spam will be solved," he told a select group of World Economic Forum participants at this Alpine ski resort....

    He's still got time, then.