4th Circuit Court Sides With a Spammer

bulled writes to tell us about coverage on CNet regarding a ruling a couple of weeks back that allows a spamming company to procede with their suit against a spamfighter. The 4th Circuit court ruled that the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act, much derided here, trumps the Oklahoma law under which anti-spam activist Mark Mumma sued Omega World Travel for spamming him. The ruling allows Omega World Travel's countersuit, for defamation, to go forward. From the article: "'There's been a lot of activity in the states to pass laws purportedly to protect their citizens' from spam, said Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University. 'The 4th Circuit may have laid waste to all of those efforts.'"

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Re:Mod UP if getting "XXXXXX wrote:" SPAM

[ScentCone]

I've been seeing untold thousands of "XXXXX wrote:" through and blocked, both. They are all coming from desktop-looking IP addresses, so it's a bot army, methinks. Today, they were from Greece, the UK, some from the US, but the largest number were from Asia. Yes, started about a week ago. That, and a flood of messages with a reply-to that always starts with "debora[h]" and a domain name that looks scraped from industrial manufacturing lists somewhere. In other words, just another day in spamland. At least it's different, and I get to get angry all over again.