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03-17-2005, 04:24 PM | #1 |
The urban Jane Goodall
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Bazaar of the bizarre: Spammers Sue Spam Victim For $4 Million
Yeah, I know it's internet related, but I figured this arena was more salient.
From Slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/03/17...id=123&tid=111 Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 17, @08:53AM from the that's-a-lot-of-pork dept. fronck writes "Self-declared anti-spammer Mark Mumma, a web hosting and email service provider, has apparently been sued for just under $4 million by cruise.com and their parent company Omega World Travel after they were ordered to stop sending him emails and comply with Oklahoma's CAN-SPAM act. Mumma intends to see the trial through court and meanwhile the spam continues unabated. More insight available at Ars Technica."
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03-17-2005, 08:39 PM | #2 |
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I was getting sometimes 20 spam emails a day from explicit porn sites until I started forwarding all of them to SPAM@UCE.GOV
In about 2 weeks they all stopped.
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03-17-2005, 11:11 PM | #3 |
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i didn't even realize you had quit forwarding them to me.
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04-05-2005, 04:37 AM | #4 |
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Great added cruise.com to my blocked domain list.
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04-05-2005, 08:30 AM | #5 |
halve your cake and eat it too.
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have any of you looked into peerguardian?... man! the things that things can block are truely insane... if you want the link I'll post it. damn handy program.. not that I'm doing anything online to be worried about *looking over shoulder*
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04-05-2005, 08:56 AM | #6 | ||
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peerguardian
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(I recently changed my e-mail address just to stop the 200!! junk e-mails I was getting every day. Most of them used to get filtered out before they made it to my inbox, or even my junk mail folder, but when I became temporarily unemployed, I spent a lot of time surfing, so it was my own fault, but I just could not get them stopped.) |
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04-05-2005, 09:35 AM | #7 |
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I'm not one of those grassroots, walk-around-with-signs, petition-signing types, but cases like this could make me become one. When the government finally gets its regulatory talons into the internet, we'll have spammers to thank.
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