Judge Awards $1 billion in Spam Lawsuit

[sintekk]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,17438...3119TX1K0000594

A federal judge has awarded a Clinton Internet service provider over $1 billion in a lawsuit against companies that used the service provider's equipment to send spam, the Quad-Cities Times reported Saturday.

It's believed to be one of the largest judgments against companies accused of sending junk e-mails.

U.S. District Judge Charles Wolle ruled Friday that Robert Kramer's business, CIS Internet Services, was harmed by the unsolicited e-mails.

"It's definitely a victory for all of us that open up our e-mail and find lewd and malicious and fraudulent e-mail in our boxes every day,'' Kramer said.

Woot. Won't stop 'em, but at least it shows that we can get them.

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[Red Squirrel]

Great!

Personally I've been fighting spam allot. And they DO find out and just send me more, but I know it's costing them lot of money since they keep having to switch server providers and most have 1 month contracts so if it's 100 bucks a month and they switch 5 times, well it's 500 bucks. Oh and setup fees too.

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[sintekk]

Personally I've been fighting spam allot.  And they DO find out and just send me more, but I know it's costing them lot of money since they keep having to switch server providers and most have 1 month contracts so if it's 100 bucks a month and they switch 5 times, well it's 500 bucks.  Oh and setup fees too.

My gmail hardly has had any spam leak out of the 'Spam' box, it does a good job with the filtering

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[Red Squirrel]

Yeah same here my filters do a pretty good job. 5% of spam maybe makes it in the inbox.

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