Bazaar of the bizarre: Spammers Sue Spam Victim For $4 Million

Troubleshooter · 03-17-2005, 04:24 PM

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."

xoxoxoBruce · 03-17-2005, 08:39 PM

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.

lookout123 · 03-17-2005, 11:11 PM

i didn't even realize you had quit forwarding them to me.

LCanal · 04-05-2005, 04:37 AM

Great added cruise.com to my blocked domain list.

cowhead · 04-05-2005, 08:30 AM

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*

Brett's Honey · 04-05-2005, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cowhead

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..

I'd like to check it out. Thanks!
(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.)

mrnoodle · 04-05-2005, 09:35 AM

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.

03-17-2005, 04:24 PM	#1
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	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." __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

03-17-2005, 08:39 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	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. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-17-2005, 11:11 PM	#3
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	i didn't even realize you had quit forwarding them to me. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

04-05-2005, 04:37 AM	#4
LCanal I hope to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sumatra Posts: 257	Great added cruise.com to my blocked domain list. __________________ "Happiness is like sex. In order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else."

04-05-2005, 08:30 AM	#5
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	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 __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

04-05-2005, 09:35 AM	#7
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	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. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

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