Spam History Goes '404'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Another rather interesting article, via Brian McWilliams'
Spam Kings blog.

[snip]

In recent weeks, spammers have been accused of trying to erase the past. But it seems that anti-spammers sometimes have 
an interest in obliterating the historical record as well.

Late in 2005, ancient spam king Jerry Reynolds sued anti-spammers Ed Falk and David Ritz to try to get Internet 
postings about his spam and porn operation removed. We also had the case of the anti-spam software company using 
search-engine tricks to hide complaints about its spamming. And most recently, there was the pill spammer suing to get 
Usenet postings about him taken down.

But some anti-spammers have (preemptively?) taken to scrubbing their sites clean of spam-fighting records.

[snip]

Much more here:
http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2006/01/spam_history_goes_404.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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