Today is just full of good news.
Texas Spammer Fined 10 Million Dollars
CHICAGO (AFP) – A college student who led a massive spam e-mail operation has been fined more than 10 million dollars, the Texas attorney general said.“Spam e-mail is not only pervasive in our society but is one of the most aggravating problems computer users face,” Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a statement Wednesday.
“Today’s crackdown effectively shuts down one of the worst spam operators and sends a warning to others who would engage in spam e-mailing for profit.”
So who gets the 10 million? There are millions of victims here….
A few weeks ago, I woke up to find 50 new comments posted to Op For. Every single flippin’ one was spam. Had to delete each one individually. Charlie and I worked hard to get Op For just the way we like it. For it to be tainted with cheap advertising, placed without our permission, is infuriating.
I also consider it stealing. Military.com pays good money to advertise on Op For, and other companies pay good money to other bloggers to advertise on their sites. Spamming blogs with advertising, against the consent of the blog owners, should be criminal.
Or, if nothing else, bloggers should be allowed to sue the pants off of these clowns.
You may have to put one of those boxes that cannot be read by a program and make posters type the characters to post.
definately save you some time.
Mailwasher is the best for email too. You get to see it all but delete it before it gets to your inbox. very cool.
Op-For should be tained with EXPENSIVE advertising!
But apparently this wasn’t a civil suit, but a fine. It’d be interesting to see a class action suit for similar conduct.
I don’t know if you have access to the database underneath your site, but I’ve found this query run nightly does wonders:
DELETE FROM Comments WHERE CommentText LIKE ‘%HTTP%HTTP%’ OR CommentText LIKE ‘%http%http%’
It may occasionally delete a real comment but it gets rid of most spam.
Putting commenters email addresses into their comment boxes is like writing your ex-wife’s phone number on a bathroom wall.
The only one’s who will use it typically have nefarious intentions.
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