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Spammers Finally Under the Legal Gun?

Posted by timothy on from the boy-I-hope-so dept.

MarkvW writes with this welcome bit of Schadenfreude: "People are finally starting to use the anti-spam laws in the malevolent manner in which they were intended — unlimited consumer lawsuits from unlimited plaintiffs!" The story's protagonist is my hero for the season.

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  1. You'd think TFA could at least get English right by fishexe · · Score: 4, Funny

    San Francisco-based Balsam has been wielding a one-man crusade against e-mail marketers he alleges run afoul of federal and state anti-spamming laws...

    Wielding a crusade? Really?

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  2. Re:You'd think TFA could at least get English righ by Smallpond · · Score: 5, Funny

    To be fair, a one-man crusade is fairly easy to lift.

  3. Poetic justice by improfane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oops, spam must be on the mind. That should read "you can sure as hell sue the domestic company who pays them".

    Although it would it would be funny if every employee of a company that pays a spammer receives a clogged inbox of real spam as part of the settlement. That would be wonderful. I mean, if everybody is reading or filtering spam emails, they company will surely go bust!

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  4. The Doctor says! by Sporkinum · · Score: 1, Funny

    UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING!

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  5. Re:Dan is... odd by Firehed · · Score: 4, Funny

    For future reference, posting as AC is quite pointless when it's so easy to perform a whois lookup, Brett.

    But props for *actually* buying the domain. Usually when I involve money in a Slashdot comment, it's from posting an affiliate link or something.

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  6. passing on the cost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The spammers just pass this cost on by raising the price of penis enlargement pills. As always, it's the little guy who pays in the end.