An anti-spam activist has published the name, address and phone-number of a notorious spammer to the Web. Now the spammer is suing the activist to have the information taken down, because he's getting pissed off at tall the junk-mail and crank-calls being directed his way by other spam-haters. Gotta admire his chutzpah.
Francis Uy, a self-described computer geek from Ellicott City, decided to fight back by employing a tactic increasingly used by a small cadre of e-mail users fed up with spam: Outing spammers by posting their addresses and phone numbers on the Internet, enabling network operators to block their e-mail or to sue them.
But Uy's target is counterattacking, resulting in a court date today in one of the more personal and unusual spam litigation cases to date. George Allen Moore Jr. of Linthicum argues that Uy's site is harassment and wants it pulled off the Internet.
(Thanks, Henry!)
