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Spammer That Sued Spamhaus Now Sued for Spamming

Posted by Zonk on from the i'll-have-the-spam-eggs-bacon-spam-and-spam-please dept.

Dave Q. Lintard writes with a link to The Register's coverage of a suit against the spammer that sued Spamhaus. e360 Insight, as the company is known, is accused of using a botnet and compromised headers to get their 'advertising' into the mailboxes of the claimant. These are also the folks that tried to get the Illinois courts to suspend SpamHaus's domain registration when they wouldn't play by e 360's rules. 'e360 Insight sued Spamhaus after the anti-spam organisation blacklisted its domains over alleged spamming. In a default ruling made by an Illinois court in September 2006, Spamhaus was ordered to pay $11.7m in compensation to e360 Insight, pull the organisation's listing, and post a notice stating that it was wrong to say e360 Insight was involved in sending junk mail. UK-based Spamhaus did not defend the case and the ruling was made in its absence.'

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  1. Best possible result would be... by jcr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He wins, gets a judgment that sends the fuckers into bankruptcy, someone buys the judgement against Spamhaus from the recievers for $1, and donates it to Spamhaus.

    -jcr

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  2. Spammers Move From Email to the Courts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm not a lawyer, but after reading through the motions of the court case of e360Insight against SpamHaus, I'd say they reek of spammers moving from e-mail to the courts.

    A sad day when our communications channels are jammed with this bullshit. An even sadder day when our justice system is over ridden with it.

  3. Broken link in TFA to spammer's site by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Interesting
    For some reason, TFA has a rogue space in the link to the spammer's press release

    "The court's ruling today is an important step in defending the rights of legitimate marketers," said Dave Linhardt, e360's President and Founder. "Amazingly, Spamhaus continues to believe it can operate above the laws of the United States. Based on Mr. Linford's refusal to comply with the permanent injuction, it is my opinion that Spamhaus is nothing more than a vigilante, cyber terrorist orgainzation with a dangerous God complex."
    Heh.
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  4. Re:The Ultimate .Forward by Don_dumb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That might all well be true BUT the U.S. courts can do all they want, Spamhaus are in the UK. And are literally outside of the jurisdiction of the US court. No one should be forced to travel to another country just to say they don't work in that country.
    Surely when the writ (or whatever it is called) was registered, the address of the people they were suing (the UK) should have made it clear that they were trying to sue someone they had no right to. IMHO a court system shouldn't process a litigation without an address of the defendant in the jurisdiction of the court system.

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  5. Re:Did Spamhaus actually pay? by MadMidnightBomber · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Spamhaus didn't pay, and nor will they.

    e360 is a spammer, and they will never obtain judgment against Spamhaus in a UK court. (Because they are a spammer. So sue me, e360.)

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  6. Re:It depends who dies offcourse! by AJWM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Killing is worse than spamming.

    That's arguable. In terms of aggregate life-minutes lost, spamming is probably a lot worse than a couple of killings.

    (Take a 75 year lifespan, that's 60*24*365*75 = 39,420,000 minutes. Send enough spam that 10 million people spend 5 minutes each dealing with it, that's 50,000,000 minutes lost. And there's a lot more spam than that.)

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