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Re: Spammers ordered to pay $1 billion

  • From: Bill Stewart
  • Date: Mon Dec 20 15:54:16 2004
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They did sue 300 spammers, so it's possible that some of them are still around,
either as individual proprietors or as corporate entities, but they're
only responsible for
their individual spamming totals, not the whole billion.
Most of the billion dollars was in two big awards, and the other numbers that
got into the article were like $140K.  But even if there are a dozen
that are on the hook for $10K each that still exist and have seizable
assets, that's enough to pay the lawyer bills.  For the small fry, you
probably can't seize their double-wides, but you might get to take
their computers and get their DSL shut off.
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             Thanks;     Bill

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