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Re: Unplugging spamming PCs
From: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh () sbcglobal net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:54:18 -0700 (PDT)
That sentence is A joke 15000 subscribers affected Court Convicts Obscene Text Messager http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IPQ4NZVA4P24ACRBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&storyID=5504916 --- Michael.Dillon () radianz com wrote:
And again, much of this comes down to enforcement.When was the lasttime you heard of a spammer's domain being pulled?How about the lasttime you saw a spammer be even remotely botheredby having theirdomain pulled? Do you think they'll really careless about losing amail server when they've got another dozen linedup ready and waiting? Well, just a couple of days ago I read about a Russian court in Chelyabinsk that sentenced a spammer to two years in prison. It's the first conviction under a Russian law that forbids the use of malicious software and the court felt that the spamming scripts used by this guy were malicious software. What he did was to send text messages to mobile phone subscribers of a single company by means of a web gateway. I think the main reason he was put on trial was because the mobile operator whose customers were getting the spam and whose gateway was being misused, went to the police and complained. How many ISPs in the USA go to the police and register official complaints about spammers? We have lots of smart people who can track down and identify spammers but it does no good unless the companies who suffer damage register an official police complaint. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs, (continued)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Brett (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Sam Hayes Merritt, III (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Brett (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Paul Vixie (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Ben Browning (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Petri Helenius (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Brett (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Doug White (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Peter Corlett (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Michael . Dillon (Jun 24)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Henry Linneweh (Jun 24)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Joe Hamelin (Jun 23)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Peter Galbavy (Jun 24)
- RE: Unplugging spamming PCs John Payne (Jun 24)
- Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Jeff Shultz (Jun 24)