Spammer splattered
Excuse me for diverting from our normally scheduled programming here, but I just came across a non-Japan piece of news that makes me want to pump my fist into the air and shout “Yes!” to the heavens.
A US-based internet service provider named CIS has been awarded $11.2 billion in a lawsuit against a Florida-based spammer.
Robert Kramer, the owner of CIS, filed a lawsuit against James McCalla and other defendants in 2003 claiming that more than 280 million spam email messages were sent to CIS email accounts. The emails advertised mortgages, debt consolidation services, pornographic and gambling Web sites.
Why am I so happy?
The JAPUNDIT spam filter blocks from 300 to 400 spam messages from our comments each day. My e-mail filter blocks another couple of hundred, and yet some still get through. Personally I would suggest that spammers be drawn and quartered, but. . .
I am SPAM, I am large, I contain multitudes. — Whalt Wittyman
Cogito ergo SPAM — Discard
HatsuSPAMode
January 6th, 2006 at 11:54 pmDeath to Spammers!:twisted:
Does anyone actually ever read those things anyway or been influenced by them?
They seem more of a weapon than a tool of advertisement.
January 7th, 2006 at 12:05 amWell of course, David. Just like the idiots who get hooked on Nigerian email scams - it happens quite a lot, otherwise spamming would’ve died a natural death long ago. Insert P.T. Barnum quote here.. Hehe.
Good luck repaying 11.2 billion, lol.
January 7th, 2006 at 7:29 amI am a fan of what some people did to “spam king” Alan Ralsky a couple of years ago. Real eye for an eye kind of stuff. It must have been incredibly satisfying to hear how well it worked.
January 7th, 2006 at 12:39 pmthe story -
January 7th, 2006 at 12:50 pm