Spam

SPAM Suits

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Well, I wasn’t convinced when the ‘Can-Spam’ legislation originally passed that we could count on the big folks to go after the spammers. I was wrong:

Microsoft Corp. and other leading Internet companies, in an unusual joint effort among corporate rivals, announced six lawsuits today against hundreds of people accused of sending millions of unwanted e-mails in violation of the new federal law against “spam.”

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. But, heck, even if they successfully stamp out these folks in the US I expect that the increasing number of items I see from Russia, etc., will continue.
You can find the actual complaints at Findlaw.

Comment Spam

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I have no use for comment spam be it prurient or political and do not assume any obligation to leave it in place.
A site that calls itself gore 4 dean dot com (not quite but I’m not blessing them with a link) incompletely states:

The main goal is to provide professional quality, grassroots produced collateral material, such as flyers, handouts, posters, handbills, etc

They left off this list the delivery of spam to blog comment threads.
Anyway, I’m deleting the comment as I would any other spam and adding them to my block list.