Spammers Sue Anti-Spam Groups 581
SuperBanana writes "The Register reports in a story today that spammers have banded together under the name EmarketersAmerica.org to sue various anti-spam groups- days before a large conference on spam hosted by the FTC(which will be attended by many spammers). Anti-spam groups think the timing is not by coincidence, but believe the move may backfire because they will be able to countersue and get access to spammer's internal documents. By the way, if you're wondering who these guys are, check out Spamhaus's directory of top spammers."
This is what should happen to all spammers.... (Score:4, Interesting)
Elliott Harris, Chicago Sun-Times: "A fan in Massachusetts, upset at Fox's decision to replace auto racing with Red Sox baseball, faces the possibility of a year in jail for sending more than 530,000 e-mails that shut down Fox's Web site in 2001. Hey, who knew a NASCAR fan would know spam was anything other than something to eat?"
Re:This is what should happen to all spammers.... (Score:4, Funny)
Damn Yankees fans, I swear ...
Random nonsense (Score:5, Insightful)
We know which companies sell their email listings, right?
More than a few of us can write a script...
A clandestine server running in an undisclosed location--perhaps a public wireless hotspot--can go forever properly filling out the forms of these companies with complete and total gibberish.
It won't crash servers... nobody will even know until it's pretty much too late and the offended databases are loaded with utter garbage.
Recently, I wrote about passively doing this to spambots [cyberista.com]. I keep the page [cyberista.com] on the server for good measure.
My tech articles are geared to a nontech audience so don't give me crap if they sound lame. I don't preach to the choir except when hanging out at Slashdot.
That said, I don't see why this concept can't be expanded. They have no defense against form scripts.
Instead... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Random nonsense (Score:3, Interesting)
First, address harvesting bots typically don't parse text looking for the representation of email addresses. They are strictly interested in mailto: urls. Embed your addresses inside anchor tags.
That said, you might want to consider adding some cover text between those anchors. Add some headings and other webby stuff. I don't know if the harvesting bots are smart enough to recognize honeypots, but if they try you don't want to be giv
Re:This is what should happen to all spammers.... (Score:3, Offtopic)
Back through the 1970s there was some stock type stuff (not very much though), but now the cars are basically the same. A part of that was because Chrysler was winning too many races. No one buys Chrysler, so Joe 6-Pack would get annoyed because it wasn't Ford vs. Chevy. So NASCAR was losing the audience. NASCAR kept changing the rules to keep Chrysler from winning so eventually Chrysler left.
It is pretty close to your ideal of watching identical cars m
Theyve banded together???? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Theyve banded together???? (Score:2)
They are better off being hard to find and spread out, than one giant name everyone can sue
Re:They've banded together???? (Score:3, Funny)
The Real Slim Shady (Score:2, Informative)
Registrant:
mark felstein
P.O.Box 667933
Pompano Beach, Florida 33066
United States
Registered through: Go Daddy Software (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: EMARKETERSAMERICA.ORG
Created on: 16-Jan-03
Expires on: 16-Jan-05
Last Updated on: 16-Jan-03
Administrative Contact:
felstein, mark mefels@aol.com
P.O.Box 667933
Pompano Beach, Florida 33066
United States
95428
The irony is just sickening (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Customer,
Please key in the password you see displayed to the right in order to obtain the information you requested from our WHOIS database.
In order to protect the privacy of our customers, Go Daddy Software has implemented a process that prevents unscrupulous spammers from running scripts that acquire email addresses from our WHOIS service (which in accordance with ICANN policy must be made available to the public). The password you see is provided in graphic format and cannot be read by a script. Only humans can read it. By taking a moment to key in the password you are doing your part to eliminate SPAM.
mefels@aol.com (Score:4, Funny)
mefels@aol.com [mailto]
Re:Theyve banded together???? (Score:3, Funny)
Does Jeff Bezos count?
Sue and be sued (Score:2)
I'm going to sue you for sueing me for sueing you to sue me...
Imagine the lawer fees on that one!
Broken link (Score:4, Informative)
emarketersamerica.org [emarketersamerica.org]
Re:Broken link (Score:2, Informative)
Woo! That directory is great. (Score:2, Funny)
Are they 'leveraging their synergy'? (Score:5, Funny)
A group of Florida-based porn peddlers, penis enlargement and Viagra spammers has united to file suit against anti-spam organisations.
Given their similar, uhhh, subject matter, I guess it makes sense they would eventually form a union of some kind.
(I meant union as in 'coalition' or similar, not any other kind. Probably best not to think too much about that one. D'oh.)
Re:Are they 'leveraging their synergy'? (Score:4, Funny)
>I guess it makes sense they would eventually form a union of some kind.
I'd much rather they formed an aggregate, were sealed in glass, then placed in a deep tunnel in a remote mountain.
Let future generations worry about the "ethics" of such a punishment.
Re:Are they 'leveraging their synergy'? (Score:3, Funny)
What's the half life of a spammer?
Re:Are they 'leveraging their synergy'? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Are they 'leveraging their synergy'? (Score:3, Funny)
The mental picture is amusing IMO.
Re:Spammers Sue Anti-Spam Groups (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spammers Sue Anti-Spam Groups (Score:5, Interesting)
It just goes to show how a few incredibly selfish individuals can bring chaos and ruin to society. It obviously does not take many to bring huge costs to business and government, so why is it so hard to prosecute these few individuals for abuse of the internet and indirect theft from business and government (taxpayer) coffers, especially if they are known?
Re:Spammers Sue Anti-Spam Groups (Score:3, Interesting)
But...
It's not that simple. The same laws that govern one thing cannot always be easily applied to other things. Things aren't so black and white. Think of it like "hackers". A "hacker" goes to prison longer than, someone who does, what we consider, a worse crime.
The internet a
Re:Spammers Sue Anti-Spam Groups (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Spammers Sue Anti-Spam Groups (Score:2)
Direct from Memorable Quotes from Alt.Sysadmin.Recovery [xnet.com]:
LANGUAGE: You should only call someone a 'Bastard' if they are deserving of this honorific. Under no circumstances should the word be applied to someone who is neither ruthless nor clued. It *is* appropriate to encourage budding instances of this behaviour with the term of endearment "BOFHlet".
A LART of biblical proportions on you and your house! $DIETY, what is this world coming to???
Jerks (Score:3, Funny)
eMarketersAmerica, more like eMarketersNigeria
Re:Jerks (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, look, there IS still one guy who thinks the US is held in any regard worldwide. Damn, now I owe my buddy a beer.
Re:Jerks (Score:3, Insightful)
That's how we got in this mess in the first place: Fear and hatred are much the same thing.. in the regimen of the 'fight or flight' syndrome, hatred is the 'fight' response over a long period of time. If the whole world fears America and only 1 in 1000 turns that into hatred, that means that there are about 6million people who want to blow the country up. Only one of them needs to succeed.
Sleep tight.
Re:Jerks (Score:2)
Contact? (Score:3, Funny)
What will be next? (Score:5, Funny)
Drug users suing dealers?
Smokers suing tobacco compani.... Oh.
Re:What will be next? (Score:3, Insightful)
Actual text of the filing in flordia (Score:5, Informative)
(Spread out which ones you use, these are alot of folks with home machines on DSL lines. Being
http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~leftreveggplant
http://chickenboner.com/felstei
http://cjllewellyn.homeip.net/slapp.p
http://home.earthlink.net/~bbay/slapp.pdf
htt
http://members.co
http://members.shaw.ca/wooly
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/egplant/
http://SteveSobol.com/slapp.pdf
http:/
http://www.b
http://www.conmicro.cx/slapp.pdf
http:/
http://www.ge
http://www.linxnet.com/misc/spam
http://www.north-lincolnshire.com/slap
http://www.pearlgates.net/nanae/slapp.pdf
http://www.t
http://www.tirani.net
There's also been some lively discussion on NANAE about this issue....
Fun with Discovery and Lawsuits (Score:3, Informative)
Anybody feel like... (Score:3, Insightful)
Assuming there are such, as it's currently being hit with a DoS. I think it's the first time a website has deserved a /.'ing.
Re:Anybody feel like... (Score:3, Insightful)
screen -d -m while true; do wget -O
Oh yeah I was wondering, if I'd really want to send my spam to email addresses listed on the website, how would I go about making sure that my own email address was obfuscated/removed so it wouldn't end up on lots of their mailing lists?
Cheers!
Costyn
Hah (Score:4, Funny)
Of course, for once, we'll see the Slashdot Effect put to good use.
Re:Hah (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe not now, but just wait until this story is posted three more times.
FYI- link to the PDF of the lawsuit (Score:5, Interesting)
I found out about this from a friend(Hi Scott!) after I submitted the article. He put it best:
"It is classic... misspellings, copy + paste problems...He named rediculous people as defendents, including the brother of one anti spammer, who apparently lives in Italy and doesn't care about spam at all."
http://chickenboner.com/felstein/slapp.pdf
hmm... (Score:4, Funny)
Can we bomb them, Oh please can we bomb them ?
Re:hmm... (Score:2)
Important Tip (Score:3, Funny)
Offshore? (Score:3, Funny)
google cahche of spamhaus' list (Score:4, Informative)
What if we just stopped using the email protocol? (Score:3, Interesting)
Let's say we ditched the email concept, and messaging just involved people going to eachothers websites and dropping a note via webform. To reply, you simply click the link back to the senders message webform etc...
Then to ensure we don't have web crawling bots auto submitting spam through the forms, you add a dynamically created GIF/jpeg file with a 5 letter code embedded that the subitter needs to type for the form to submit.
Then, problem solved no? Christ the email protocol we've been using for the last 20years is ready for the shitter in my opinion.
--Zuchini
Re:What if we just stopped using the email protoco (Score:2)
I can compose an email on my Palm if I want to - without an internet connection and have it automatically send once it is connected.
As for the GIF/JPEG thing
--
Not that the system for
I'm working on charachter regongnition software .. (Score:2)
It wouldn't be TOO difficult to defeat that system either!
and after I did, I could spam the spammer's web pages, offering it to them at an unbelievable discount!!!
Re:What if we just stopped using the email protoco (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, it's much easier to come up with a dumb idea without having to think the whole thing through first.
judicial spam (Score:3, Funny)
Keeping courts busy with unnecessary and pointless lawsuits, thus blocking "real" and important cases and wasting resources is its own form of spam: judicial spam!
Addresses (Score:2)
rus
Spamhaus slashdotted already (Score:5, Interesting)
What's really amazing isn't that spammers continue to spam but that they continue to find people who are willing to pay them to do so. Have you ever read what an email marketer considers fair results? 2% of the emails you buy will be viewed (viewed meaning that someone actually generated an http request based on the HTML inside). How do they guarantee this? If they fall short, they will
This is an amazing comment on the ineffectiveness of spam. More than 98% of all spam messages are deleted unseen (or bounced). Of the remaining 2%, some of those were only "viewed" in the sense that they had active focus when the receiver hit delete. Of those that generate actual click-through, how many generate sales?
How stupid does someone have to be to buy an "email marketing campaign?" One could get better results by sending your $1000 to a local charity and putting out a press release.
Spam --- built on ignorance and stupidity.
Re:Spamhaus slashdotted already (Score:2)
I wonder what percentage of the "viewed" statistic is generated by similar responses? More to the point -- I wonder if there's any way to measure how many are actually read?
Re:Spamhaus slashdotted already (Score:3, Insightful)
And I'm NEVER one of the 2% as I have external images in email turned off thanks to Mozilla. A lot of spammers will use images to gerneate and http request, thereby allowing them to track who views what messages. I'm a much happier camper since I turned off external images and installed spamassassin, although a lot more junk has been slipping by spamassassin now since I first
Re:Spamhaus slashdotted already (Score:5, Insightful)
- This is an amazing comment on the ineffectiveness of spam.
Only if you don't complete the math. I haven't priced a spam-campaign, personally, but I have seen adverts for software you can "run from home" that retail for as little $75.So let's play a numbers game. Let's suppose I want to sell narfing-irons. I can manufacture them cheaply in India, so I have a good supply, and can make a 60% profit if I sell them for $35 a pair. I want to use a spam campaign, because I know how effective they are. I buy a service for $350, and they will send spam out to 4 million addresses. Just 2% will result in page views. That's 80,000 hits. Let's assume we get a sales rate of .5%. That's right, one-half of one percent. That's 400 sales. Or, total revenues of $14,000. Around $8000 of that is profit, from which my $350 spam-campaign is taken.
And that was only one run of spam. If I run, say, 10 or 12 campaigns from different services, with similar rates of return, my narfing-iron business will net me in the vicinity of $80K-$100K in profit from Internet-based sales alone. And I didn't lift a finger, other than to ship the product.
NOW do you see where they get people who will pay for this service?
paradoxical question (Score:4, Funny)
Re:paradoxical question (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah right (Score:3, Interesting)
Allright the blacklisting is allright because the user is requesting those sites to be blacklisted. Don't know about invasion of privacy (probably publishing the names and addresses), publication of false information (isn't that libel?). Finally "intentionally interference with a contract".(well at least it's spammer english:) there was never any contract in the first place and is just the user trying to avoid harassment. I'll be very surprised if this goes anywhere then again we may not have the whole story, remember the register isn't exactly an impartial newssource.
Re:Yeah right (Score:3, Informative)
No law against that.
They have claimed that the spammers break the law, when in most cases, spam isn't illegal
Irrelevant. Pyramid scams, quack medical claims, distribution of pornography to minors, etc. most certainly are illegal.
they have put pressure on ISPs to cancel spammers contracts
So what? It is perfectly legal to boycott a company to pressure them to cancel a contract with someone for any reason, or for
One major problem none of you have considered (Score:2)
The marketers will demand that any judge who has been spammed recuse themselves.
Weighting the Scale of Justice (Score:3)
Then we submit their email addresses to the mailing list at the eMarketersAmerica site and any other spam wesite we can find :)
Recidivist Spammers (Score:5, Funny)
So... who's got 1,800 feet of rope and an orchard to spare?
spammer conference? (Score:3, Funny)
Now where's some of that Iraqi nerve agent when we need it?
Want someone to complain to? (Score:5, Informative)
FELSTEIN & ASSOCIATES, P.A.
Attorneys for EMarketersAmerica.org, Inc.
555 South Federal Highway, Suite 450
Boca Raton, Florida 33432
(561) 367-7990 Phone
(561) 367-7980 Facsimile
mark@EMarketersAmerica.org
Mark E. Felstein, Esq.
FBN: 192139
I think we have a new address for every free cd offer, junk ad, and telemarketer list in the world.
Re:Want someone to complain to? (Score:3, Funny)
Or free samples of "White Powder." If you no longer want to recieve more White Powder please fill out this form and mail it back to us and we will promptly sell all your information to every marketer we can find. Thanks.
Re:Want someone to complain to? (Score:3, Informative)
EMARKETERSAMERICA.ORG WHOIS Results
The data contained in Go Daddy Software, Inc.'s WHOIS database.
Registrant:
mark felstein
P.O.Box 667933
Pompano Beach, Florida 33066
United States
Registered through: Go Daddy Software (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: EMARKETERSAMERICA.ORG
Created on: 16-Jan-03
Expires on: 16-Jan-05
Last Updated on: 16-Jan-03
Administrative Contact:
felstein, mark mefels@aol.com
P.O.Box 667933
Pompan
Spam Me Please!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Address:
5016 Patrick Rd
West Bloomfield, MI 48322-1543
I REALLY NEED A PENIS ENLARGEMENT!!! PLEASE!!! I'll EVEN GIVE YOU MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER!!!!!
Maybe we could (Score:3, Funny)
Network Operators where are you? (Score:3)
Eventually they will run out of aliases and addresses to use. But I suspect that the access providers make a lot of money from spam, probably providing a premium service to spammers much like the adult hosting business. Or maybe the access providers are just so big now that they just don't notice where the spam comes from? I doubt it though, if they were really losing money they would shut them down in a second.
Even if spam is not coming from your network, then networks could just not peer with networks that allow spammers to operate without discretion, ie those that send out unsolicited emails with false origination information or use brute force spamming techniques such as dictionary matching.
The worst spammers are akin to a DoS attack, which can be tracked down and stopped. This is basically the same thing. So why not just unplug the spammers one by one?
Or are they somehow smarter than us? Maybe these are genetically engineered super smart spammers that can anticipate our every move? No, its just the people that can deny them access aren't motivated enough.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh wait, that's the case here too... Nevermind.
Spam as business (Score:5, Insightful)
The residential users are annoying because there are so many of them, but if, 10 years from now, the only way you can send mail is to relay through a large ISP's mail servers... who do you think said ISP's best business partners will be?
For an answer to that question look to the US Postal Service's largest customers: The US Federal Government and bulk mailers.
THAT is exactly the business niche that spammers are evolving into. All they need is for users to have slightly less choice and ISPs to have slightly more power to tell their users how the Internet works rather than the other way around.
Push to keep the Internet a network of peers while establishing a system of identity, trust and responsibility (which should in turn also by non-centralized, but rooted on an arbitrary number of certificate authorities and trust databases), and you will do yourself and the rest of the world a large favor!
Ridiculous (Score:2)
They seem to be VERY organized (*cough*) (Score:2)
Here is what I found at http://www.EmarketersAmerica.org
Man, they must be serious .... they have their domain name registered!!!
... and that is it!!! They don't even have a site up yet! How can you take them seriously!
... further, we know which ISP to forward our leftover spam to :)
Everyone should contact Go Daddy and protest them hosting this site and aiding terrorists (well, they terrorize my mail box every
physical address (Score:2)
I Must Have Missed Something... (Score:5, Insightful)
anyway, the way it sounds is that they are being sued because they sell products/list information that people use to stop the flow of "crap" from these companies. From what I read, they didnt attack these companies, they didnt DoS them, they merely provided tools that people could use to stop spammers from contacting them.
The people that are using these tools probably never would have purchased anything from them anyway, and if they are like most of us, the emails are blocked/auto deleted/instantly trashed when they do get through, so its a moot point anyway.
I think these people are just ticked off because their scummy business is being threatened by people who are intelligent enough to "work the internet", not just "use" it.
thats just my thoughts, I could be wrong...
Re:I Must Have Missed Something... (Score:2)
There's no legalese in it. I think it was written by a broken random word generator. They certainly have no clue how the internet works. Hell, they claim they own their IP addresses, despite explicit contracts to the contrary.
counter-suit? (Score:2)
What exactly could they counter-sue for now, that they couldn't have sued for beforehand? Wrongful prosecution doesn't fit, since this is not a criminal case. I honestly can't think of anything that they couldn't have already sued for, which indicates that either the anti-spammers don't really have a case for a counter-suit, or they never bothered to take it to legal action in the past.
Eddy Marin (Score:5, Interesting)
Eddy uses a front company, "PG&C Leasing Inc." (aka lauderdale.net) to disguise his activity. This company buys the bandwidth for him to spam through. He then sets up dummy companies to act as "customers" of PG&C. If the heat gets too hot he'll "terminate" a "customer". Of course the spam just continues under another name.
He's operated like this since 1998. He's had a long time to develope a reputation among his spamming pals, and since he brings money into the local economy, Boca Raton loves him.
Here's just ONE of his netblocks:
http://www.senderbase.com/search?searchBy=ipadd
The bulk of the spam from that netblock is from "OmniPoint Marketing". If you've been paying good attention. Spam also goes out from "justdous.com, prefersavings.com, dealstwoyou.com, and tlck.net". These are registered to things like "M.M.COMMERCE,INC", and "OptIn LLC" (which is Terry Williams, another Eddy Marin flunkie)
stealthemail.com ??? Give me a break!
--Og
10 minute solution to eliminate spam (Score:2, Insightful)
Using the courts to harrass anti-spammers (Score:2)
They've been harrassing the people named in the lawsuit for months, if not years now, and this is just their latest method of doing so.
What's disturbing about this harrassment in particular, is that they're using tax payers' money by abusing the US courts as a means to go after their arch-enemies, the anti-spammers.
The actual filing papers can be found from a mirror [jscript.dk] (PDF file).
Read it, and have
eMarketersAmerica.org : (Score:4, Insightful)
Blacklisting must be working... (Score:5, Funny)
"Should the Defendants, be allowed to continue their assault upon the Plaintiff and the Plaintiff's industry, the Plaintiff's industry will cease to exist."
Yay. Now there's an incentive for a judge to issue an injunction if I ever heard one: the preservation of spam.
Total and complete bullshit (Score:3, Insightful)
blacklisting IP addresses of the plaintiffs
No-one has to use these blacklists. They can and have the right to blacklist anyone for any damn reason they choose. If individual's don't like their blacklisting policies, they can use a different blacklist. The fact is, these guys deserve to be blacklisted.
libel
Hahahhahahahahahahah. For something to be libel, it has to false. Every claim made about these slimebags is completely true. Period. End of discussion. In fact, these spammers need to be prosecuted for frauid: none of that crap you see in e-mails is true. It's all fraudulent.
invasion of privacy
Hahahahahah. If you send out thousands of e-mails a day, your e-mail address and contact information are not private. In fact, your e-mail address, phone number, or house number do not get the protection of privacy. That is all public information. Even if this claim was true, there are no penalties for invasion of privacy of the kind they could possibly be referrign to.
the publication of allegedly false information
Bullshit.
"intentionally interference with a contract"
Bullshit. No-one who has received SPAM had a contract with the spammer to receive it. Period. End of discussion.
This crap should have been trashed by the clerks who received it, and these guys should have been fined a hundred thousand dollars for wasting the court's time.
Re: McDonald's coffee lawsuit NOT bullshit (Score:3, Informative)
You obviously don't know the facts in the McDonald's coffee law
Surely this is a joke? (Score:5, Interesting)
Several things point to this being a joke. If it's not a joke, their lawyer is the most incompetent lawyer on the planet.
I have difficulty believing that a lawyer coud really have drafted this crud.
this strikes me as a very good sign (Score:3, Interesting)
I've been very happy with my sendmail configuration, where I'm using blacklists and whitelists (/etc/mail/access) and a collection of realtime blocking lists. I had almost given up on recreational computing because of the sorry state of my inbox, but now things are better.
I think it's time for us to better document & pomote the use of these measures so that more people are sending them 550's, instead of quietly deleting their garbage.
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:4, Informative)
This isn't advocating some sort of lynching or suspension of civil rights- it's just a simple statement of fact. The point is that spam isn't something that a large number of people are doing; it's the activities of a very small number of people making us all miserable, and that small number is approximately 180.
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:2)
Rats, and I was just thinking "Yeah! I get to lynch a spammer!" Kent
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:3, Insightful)
Ummm... no, not really.
First of all, this is just a mathematical statement about the number of spammers that are responsible for 99% of the spam you receive. It isn't some sort of guide for public policy, which was my point.
Also, when we prosecute drug dealers we create a vacuum in the market that is quickly filled with more entrepreneurs. Soon every street corner is spoken for. If we were to stop prosecuting t
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:5, Insightful)
As for what, "spirited off internet" means, I think it involves a
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:2, Insightful)
Anti_spam_fanatic_mode
I hope that someone finds the personal info of those 180 people and posts it here on
However, if we did that, then we would be no better than they are. Perhaps a more effective thing to do wou
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:2)
The
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:5, Insightful)
DOS, schmoss. Why the hell aren't each and every one of the spammers' filter-evasion tricks prosecutable under the computer-cracking laws, as they are clearly deliberate actions aimed at bypassing the access security placed on a computer by its owner?
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:2)
Re:No sir, I didn't like it. (Score:3, Insightful)
The spammers are bad, but they are only permitted to be so by those that pay them. If we stop those that pay them, there'd be a whole lot less spam. [a bit like the war on drugs, drug lords replace killed drug lords... but at the end of the day if there we could stop the addicts being the addicts there'd be no drug lords... a bit circular].
Of course, removing the source is no
Re:FL State Link (Score:3, Informative)
sunbiz [sunbiz.org]
Re:Spam is not "worthless" (Score:4, Insightful)
When the laws are reformed so that the "cost of spam" includes 2-5 as the Bride of Bubba, then it will become unprofitable -- it doesn't bring in the kind of money that will get people to accept that level of risk (unlike, for example, the illegal drug trade).
Re:Interesting read.... (Score:4, Insightful)
The spam blockers are selling/giving away a tool that lets system administrators and individual users ignore messages that they do not wish to receive. If I started a doorbell-removal business, would certain religious groups sue me for ruining their business?