Author Topic: Spammer gets a taste of his own medicine :D  (Read 824 times)

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« on: 7 December 2002, 20:50 »
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MIKE WENDLAND: Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out

December 6, 2002

BY MIKE WENDLAND
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world's biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine.

Ever since I wrote a story on him a couple of weeks ago (http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend22_20021122.htm), he says he's been inundated with ads, catalogs and brochures delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to his brand-new $740,000 home.

It's all the result of a well-organized campaign by the anti-spam community, and Ralsky doesn't find it funny.

"They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is," he told me. "These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me."

That they are. Gleefully. Almost 300 anti-Ralsky posts were made on the Slashdot.org Web site, where the plan was hatched after spam haters posted his address, even an aerial view of his neighborhood.

"Several tons of snail mail spam every day might just annoy him as much as his spam annoys me," wrote one of the anti-spammers.

Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers.



http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm

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« Reply #1 on: 7 December 2002, 20:54 »
yeah, i remember that article, and i even saw the part on slashdot about doing that. i though it was idle aggresion. and this man needs some help. he thinks that becuase he does something its right, but if somebody else does it its not. i hope the anti-spammers win in court
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« Reply #2 on: 7 December 2002, 23:10 »
thats the best plan i have ever seen. What a bastard from hell, he's gettin what he deserves.
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« Reply #3 on: 8 December 2002, 00:13 »
Maybe there is balance in the world after all.

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« Reply #4 on: 10 December 2002, 01:53 »
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Originally posted by Macman: Mac Trooper:
Maybe there is balance in the world after all.


I'll second that   :D
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« Reply #5 on: 11 December 2002, 22:34 »
...And Justice For All
Free it, goddamnit!

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« Reply #6 on: 12 December 2002, 13:27 »
how dare he have the gall to try and sue people for doing exactly what he does to others for a living?

what an asshole!
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« Reply #7 on: 12 December 2002, 14:13 »
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