Spammers Threaten Techdirt With Lawsuit 303
An anonymous reader writes "Found over at Declan McCullough's Politech, some spammers who had been written up in the NY Times found their contact info displayed on Techdirt, after they wrote about the NY Times story. Apparently, someone was trying to pull a Ralsky on the spammers. The spammers got pissed off and threatened to sue Techdirt - even though all the info was publicly available and other court cases have shown it's legal to post spammer's contact information. Techdirt, interestingly, took the contact info down because they feel that no one should get spammed. I'm kind of torn on this one. On the one hand, I respect Techdirt for taking such a stand, but on the other, I feel that the spammers clearly deserve to be spammed back. The fact that they threatened Techdirt, despite them not having done anything wrong (it wasn't even the folks at Techdirt who posted the info - but some readers), makes me even angrier at the spammer."
Which spammers? (Score:5, Funny)
An eye for an eye (Score:1, Funny)
(Or at least one-eyed)
Re:sounds like spammers can't take their own medic (Score:5, Funny)
I thought that the war for all the bases wasn't scheduled to start until A.D. 2101 [allyourbase.net]...
Re:An eye for an eye (Score:-1, Funny)
I once knew a guy who send out a fake virus warning, through the whole company, worldwide.
He actually received about 5 000 emails, from people telling him it was not a virus, in 1 day.
that was pretty funny
Google archive? Mirror? (Score:1, Funny)
Any chance a mirror site could be put up outside the US?
Just idle questions, you understand, I'm not specifically advocating anything...
yeahright.
Re:Two wrongs don't make a right. (Score:2, Funny)
an eye for an eye (Score:1, Funny)
they're missing it (Score:3, Funny)
For instance, I would benefit those rich guys so much by offering some business opportunity in Nigeria I'm into.
Ah, praise the lord for those helping guys, always wanting to inform you about the latest and greatest offers, and refusing to accept anything in exchange...
Re:It's a sad fact of modern life... (Score:0, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:no. (Score:2, Funny)
I wonder whose e-mail addy this might be? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:sounds like spammers can't take their own medic (Score:3, Funny)
Thankfully, they'll be able to enlarge their penises (penii? :) one to three inches with the new herbal supplement they're e-mailing each other about.
The end of Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Okay everybody, the game is over and JessLeah is the winner. Slashdot will now be closed.
LAST POST!
Re:The reason you're torn... (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, but in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man
is king!
Moral? You get one eye poked out, hide out and wait
for the poking to stop, then declare yourself king.
Re:Okay, bring 'em on (Score:0, Funny)
Re:The BEST way to stop spammers (Score:2, Funny)
Now I'm envisioning the commercials with the Bambi-eyed teenagers saying "I helped waste bandwidth"... "I helped clog thousands of mail servers worldwide"... "I helped send penis enlargement ads to my grandmother".
"Where do spammers get their money? If you buy drugs, some of it might come from you."
shudder
Thanks.
Re:Which spammers? These spammers (Score:5, Funny)
"These antispammers should get a life," she said. "Do their fingers hurt too much from pressing the delete key? How much time does that really take from their day?"
By contrast, she said, "70 million people have bad credit. Guess what? Now I can't get mail through to them to help them."
Did anyone else reading that feel a powerful compulsion to punch her in the face? As someone who recieves anything up to 200 pieces of spam a DAY now, I know I did.
Re:Which spammers? These spammers (Score:1, Funny)
Don't forget (Score:3, Funny)
heh, heh.
Re:What happens (Score:4, Funny)
Um, yes? Premeditated murder is one of those things that most civilized societies prefer not to condone. (Save for when approved by the state in times of war, or when commited by the U.S. 'corrections' system.) Talk about a disproportionate response. Spammers are really, really, really annoying, and they're thieves without question--but we stopped hanging thieves more than a century ago.
On the other hand, maybe if someone just gave a spammer a really good beating, I could let that slide...
Won't someone please think of the children? (Score:0, Funny)
Thanks!
Congratulations (Score:2, Funny)
Congratulations on your intelligence. On the other hand, I guess if you were smart, you might not have to be a spammer for a living.
Live by the sword... (Score:1, Funny)