AOL To Sue 531 Illegal Spam Swappers
Posted by Matthew on Friday February 20, 2004 @09:23AM
from the they're-ruining-it-for-the-rest-of-us dept.
Mearzuh writes: AOL and Earthlink have joined forces in the battle to sue 531 persons who they believe are illegally swapping email spam.
The companies are accusing the defendents of illegally sharing and downloading spam using free host-to-server POP3 software such as Microsoft Outlook and IncrediMail. “These people were caught downloading as many as 250 million spam messages in the last month alone,” said an AOL spokesperson,” and we cannot allow this in a capitalist society. Because of these people, spam solicitors had lost revenue and had to send out 35 million more messages per week, to make up for the loss. We cannot let things go on like that.”
Next on the list of AOL are bigger spam-swapping websites such as Yahoo and Microsoft’s Hotmail. When asked whether AOL and Earthlink themselves would be on this list, the two companies could not be reached for comment.