October 19, 2007
Help Antispammer David Ritz
Antispammer David Ritz is in trouble and needs your help.
Posted by schampeo at 10:33 AM | TrackBack
August 9, 2005
Microsoft Settles Suit Against Richter
Well, it looks like Microsoft has settled in its suit against Scott Richter; Richter pays $7 million, and it looks like he gets to stop being bankrupt.
Posted by schampeo at 10:49 AM
April 28, 2005
Spitzer Taking On Spyware
New York DA Eliot Spitzer is suing Intermix:
A six-month investigation found that the company installed a wide range of advertising software on countless personal computers nationwide, with more than 3.7 million downloads directed at New Yorkers alone, Spitzer said.
Go get 'em.
Posted by schampeo at 9:20 PM
April 21, 2005
UK Needs Tougher Anti-Spam Laws
The BBC is running an article about the UK's tepid anti-spam laws, featuring Steve Linford from Spamhaus, naturally, and some viewpoints from AOL folks.
Posted by schampeo at 11:19 AM
April 18, 2005
Hypertouch Pours Kraft/Gevalia a Bitter Cup
California-based Hypertouch has filed suit against Kraft Foods, Inc. today, taking them to task for their long-standing and blatant disregard for spam laws. Damages sought exceed $11M. With any luck, this will serve as a welcome warning to others in the same or similar boat - who not only disregard the law, but willfully compromise their own customers' personal information by sharing addresses (which are never confirmed as "opt-in") with others; and, who, whether by incompetence or willful disregard, ignore unsubscription requests, and otherwise set such a horrible example.
It's been a while since we last received mail from Gevalia, to a scraped address only used for inbound mail, but we haven't forgotten, and we wish Hypertouch luck. For two years (from 2002 to 2004) we regularly received such from a wide variety of Gevalia-hired spamhouses, the first on record to an address that hadn't been used in two years, much more to my address, several to customers (one of whom eventually repudiated email altogether, and spam sent to that address comprised 47% of ALL SPAM sent to one of our servers during February 2003, six months after they'd requested that the account be shut down). In a nutshell, Gevalia spammed as many people (or addresses) as possible, by hiring spammers, who then kept and sold or spammed the addresses for unrelated products and services. We hope the jury comes back and recommends that Gevalia pay double.
I won't mention how difficult it has been during the composition of this post to refrain from coffee puns, but I know you feel my pain.
Posted by schampeo at 5:01 PM