SpamAnti.net in November 2005

News of the world

American spammer: 1-year jail and 120,000$ compensation

Peter Moshou sent SPAM offering brokerage services for people interested in selling their timeshares.

Earthlink that sued him also announced there was an action against another spammer implicated in the distribution of hundreds of thousands of unsolicited emails advertising discount ink jet printer cartridges and other printer supplies.

6 years of jail for an English spammer in United Kingdom

Peter Francis-Macrae, 23-year old Englishman from St Neots, Cambridgeshire, just received a sentence of 6 years of jail for his SPAM activities.

He did not reveal where he hid the 425,000 pounds he "earned" this way.

So the wigged ones do not always fail understanding the real issues (see below).

Mail-bombing is legal in United Kingdom

That is what must be concluded from the the acquittal of a bloke who sent 5 millions of email to his ex-employer. A bizarre justice decision from a wigged one (maybe his hairy artifact hotted the blood irrigating his grey matter).

igNobel prizes for the crooks

I nearly missed this one! Last month, in parallel with the Nobel Prizes, some very special works have been awarded the igNobel prizes for 2005 (The winners have all done things that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK).

LITERATURE: The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others -- each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them.

Source: Annals of improbable research

Spammers strain DNS

It's a minor technical information tidbit, but people started to notice that certain spammer tactics are specially hard on DNS services. For example, technically declaring the domains they advertise only after sending the SPAM emails, forces thousands of email servers to run into a DNS error each time a SPAM arrives from this origin that is not yet declared (or whose declaration did not propagate yet).

Will spammers succeed in slowing down the Internet?

News of SpamAnti.net

Financial help for SpamAnti.net

This month, there is a change on our SpamAnti.net web site. In order to bring some financial support to the development and the maintenance of the site, I decided to add some advertisement on the pages of SpamAnti.net.

I hope this will not be a nuisance during your visit. In most cases, I expect them to be useful to the visitors.

The ads are provided by Google AdSense that pays for the number of recorded mouse clicks (each time a visitor clicks an ad, I get a small amount of money). I am in no risk to live of that (let alone become an Internet tycoon), but it will help the web site survive (after all it's been nearly 10 years that we exist from Compuserve to Magic, Noos and Goélette).

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