Stories from the battlefront, collected information and evidence files, plus odd tidbits of activity.
When a spammer makes the mistake of forging an antispammers domain name in an unsolicted advertising email, what can happen? The antispammer will use stealth and cunning to reach across the net to inspect the spammer's hard drive, compile an evidence file, and turn it over to the abuse desk at the ISP of origin. Garst has since been taken to court by the Securities and Exchange Commission for violation of Federal Law related to her spamming activity.
What happens when a spammer retains an attorney to threaten the participants in a Usenet newsgroup? You learn a lot about the attorney, the attorney's firm, and the tenacity of spam fighters.
When a judge signs a court order requiring you to give $1,000.00 to each person you spam for each spam you send them, what do you do? Keep spamming and don't pay, of course!
Representing the great state of Alaska, Sen. Murkowski thought the ideal solution to the plague of unsolicited advertising email was to make it a legal, regulated activity instead of empowering the victims to stop it.
How do Internet Service Providers check a potential customer to determine if they are die-hard spammers? Here's an entertaining conversation between an ISP and the potential customer that shows how it's done.
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