http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm <font size=5>MIKE WENDLAND: Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out </font> December 6, 2002 BY MIKE WENDLAND FREE PRESS COLUMNIST West Bloomfield bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky, who just may be the world's biggest sender of Internet spam, is getting a taste of his own medicine. Ever since I wrote a story on him a couple of weeks ago (www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend22_20021122.htm), he says he's been inundated with ads, catalogs and brochures delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to his brand-new $740,000 home. It's all the result of a well-organized campaign by the anti-spam community, and Ralsky doesn't find it funny. "They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is," he told me. "These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me." That they are. Gleefully. Almost 300 anti-Ralsky posts were made on the Slashdot.org Web site, where the plan was hatched after spam haters posted his address, even an aerial view of his neighborhood. "Several tons of snail mail spam every day might just annoy him as much as his spam annoys me," wrote one of the anti-spammers. Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers.
What a loser. He can diss out spam, but can't take getting it. I'd like his address to send him a bunch of junk.
I would love to just get into that fool's basement with a hose and give all of his computers a nice shower.
Perhaps a trend is starting here. I read that the guys who make those annoying pop-ups that look like error messages are getting sued for misrepresentation or something like that.
