Judge orders spammers to stop sending unsolicited emails...

[Jugernot]

A state judge Wednesday barred a Niagra Falls company from sending commercial e-mails to Internet subscribers without their permission.

State Supreme Court Justice Lottie E. Wilkins permanently enjoined MonsterHut Inc., which state officials accused of sending some 500 million unsolicited commercial e-mails and then telling complaining recipients that they had requested it.

State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued MonsterHut after some 750,000 computer users complained that since March 2001 they had received the unwanted messages also known as computer spam and tried to have them stopped but were told they had "opted in" to receive them.

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I especially liked this line:

"There was no telephone listing for MonsterHut in Niagara Falls or the surrounding area."

Of course there wasn't, you must contact them using the unsubcribe form that is attached to the bottom of each and EVERY email they send. Did you know that?

Jugs

 

[FoBoT]

i am sure this will work

it is very unlikely that the company will just move to another jurisdiction and keep doing the same thing

 

[amnesiac]

Personally, I would be glad to pay a tax of some sort to support an anti-spam bill.
Unfortunately, we know all too well that such a thing would be the start of the end of internet freedom.