SpamAnti.net in September 2006

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SpamHaus condemned to 11.7 millions of $$$

The marketing company e360insight sued SpamHaus for wrongly listing it as a spammer. But we just heard that SpamHaus lost and will have to pay a record 12 million dollars fine.

Being in the UK, SpamHaus seems unfazed and invites e360insight to sue again in front of a UK judge, saying that British courts "do not accept US-style 'SLAPP' suits and impose penalties for lying to the court".

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Additionally, UserFriendly presents a delicious solution to the problem of SPAM (or spammers).

Why SPAM is working?

If you ever wondered why, the answer may lie in the poll I exhumed from 2005. It tells it all: 11% of the Americain Internet users polled by Mirapoint and Radicati Group admitted they had bought something promoted through SPAM (a marketer's wet dream!).

To know if this was a good idea, just notice that 9% of the same users admit that they lost their money in such a consumer move (practically all those who accepted SPAM finally saw their money lost; I guess that the others were just too dumb to notice it)

News of SpamAnti.net

The black list will stop soon

I intend to stop publishing the black list of spamming domains. I now consider that its usefulness dropped too low to be compared to statistical tools like K9 or POPfile (that you can find in my download page).

If you want to contact me about this issue (whether you want to convince me to keep it online or you'd like to provide some related information I missed), please, send me message.

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