Major Anti-Spam Lawsuit To Be Filed In VA

Rick Zeman sends us to the Washington Post, which is reporting that a John Doe lawsuit will be filed in US District Court today in spam-unfriendly Alexandria, Virginia. The suit will be filed by Project Honey Pot, which is having a week of big announcements. The suit seeks the identity of individuals responsible for harvesting millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers. From the Post: "The company is filing the suit on behalf of some 20,000 people who use its anti-spam tool. Web site owners use the project's free software to generate pages that feature unique 'spam trap' e-mail addresses each time those pages are visited. The software then records the Internet address of the visitor and the date and time of the visit. Because those addresses are never used to sign up for e-mail lists, the software can help investigators draw connections between harvesters and spammers if an address generated by a spam trap or 'honey pot' later receives junk e-mail."

RIAA tactics to catch spammers?

[morgan_greywolf]

So these guys are using the same tactics as the RIAA to catch spammers? I smell a patent lawsuit! ;)

Re:What would the natural response be?

[BlueTrin]

learly spam works, so the amount of spam being sent would only continue to grow. Would this lead to increased vigilante action? More privacy and restrictions imposed by administrators? Decrease in the use of Email as the signal-to-noise ratio continues to degenerate? All of the above?

The answers to these and other questions in the next episode of "Honey Pot Advantures". Do not miss the next episode on Channel Dupe !

Vatican spam

[paulatz]

Maybe in the USA nobody knows, but the acronym VA uses to stand for Vatican (http://www.vatican.va/) not Virginia. You may imagine how dazzled I was after reading that the Pope himself will take care of spammers, will they be excommunicated?

Re:Vatican spam

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't come crying to us because you live outside the U.S.

You hate us for our freedom!

Re:Vatican spam

[allscan]

Perhaps a it's time for the SPAMish Inquisition.

Re:Vatican spam

[FrankNputer]

Perhaps a it's time for the SPAMish Inquisition.

I didn't expect that...