ISPs and e-mail providers go on the offensive

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-10 03:03pm

Time Warner, Earthlink, Microsoft and Yahoo are all suing hundreds of spammers under the recently-passed "Can-Spam" act

Link to Reuters article

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-03-10 03:10pm

Excellent. Wipe them out. All of them.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2004-03-10 03:12pm

ABOUT TIME TOO! Seriously though, spammers will likely just move around and change company names... can't prosecute a company that doesn't exist. But still, it's a step in the right direction... now for the constitutional amendnent making spam punishable by life sentences in maximum detention facilities, occupied by surfing computers full of pop-ups, penis-enlargement ads, viagra commercials, and nary a real website in there...

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2004-03-10 03:48pm

Its funny how succesfull spamming really is. It has no effect on experianced internet uses who know what they want, and know that spam is bullshit, but it fucks people like my parents or grandparents up. I cant tell them my e-mail address because they'll sign me up for 100's of things they think ill like -,- . Its just crap ass because their inbox is always full of spam and they always make me clear it out for them... but they frequently purchase stuff from adds they get in spam boxes =[

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-03-10 04:00pm

I have to seriously wonder how I compare to the rest of humanity when I can quite easily avoid this shit and yet see it still exists which leads me to conclude that there are millions of idiots who pass this stuff on and further propagate it on the Net.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-03-10 04:05pm

Yay!

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-03-10 07:59pm

Let's hope things will go in the right direction.

Tribun · Post by **Tribun** » 2004-03-10 08:08pm

"Spammers will be shot!
-Survivors will be shot again!"

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2004-03-10 09:01pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:Excellent. Wipe them out. All of them.

God I love when Star Wars quotes are used in such a fashion.

OT

My friend had broken up with this girl for the third time and she says to him "Jon, you're evil" if that would have been me my response would have been "Young fool only now at the end do you understand." she was a psycho... but I digress. Good old fun with Star Wars quotes...