--- From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <sureshat_private> To: <declanat_private> Subject: Fw: [silk] spammer wins legal fees from victim Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 20:50:40 +0800 The spammer who managed to win court costs / legal fees is Dan Amato / SDILabs, who has been shilling "growth medicine" and such for quite a few years. Searching groups.google.com for SDI+Labs+Spam will produce a ton of info. -srs [...] --- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134511084_spam11m.html By Peter Lewis Seattle Times consumer-affairs reporter A Seattle man who has been actively pursuing spammers in King County District Court has been hit with a nearly $7,000 judgment to cover a spammer's attorney fees, stunning the man and his lawyers. It may be the first and heaviest financial setback for the band of Puget Sound area spamfighters who have taken matters into their own hands by using Washington state's anti-spam law to seek redress against junk e-mailers. It is also a sign that some spammers are deciding to fight back. The Florida-based spammer that Joel Hodgell went after is well known to anti-spam activists. Hodgell sued Daniel Amato and his business, Samson Distributing, also known as SDI Labs, in King County District Court's small-claims division in Seattle. Also named as a defendant was Amato's father, George Amato, who apparently is Samson's registered agent. [...] --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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