Topic: How russia handles SPAMMERS.

[Sirgod]

Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head.

Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Center for American English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English, all known to have aggressive Internet advertising policies in which millions of e-mails were sent every day.

In the past angry Internet users have targeted the American English centre by publishing the Center’s telephone numbers anywhere on the Web to provoke telephone calls. The Center’s telephone was advertised as a contact number for cheap sex services, or bargain real estate sales.

Another attack involved hundreds of people making phone calls to the American English Center and sending it numerous e-mails back, but Vardan Kushnir remained sure of his right to spam, saying it was what e-mails were for.

Under Russian law, spamming is not considered illegal, although lawmakers are working on legal projects that could protect Russian Internet users like they do in Europe and the U.S.


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Stephen

[Mr_Tricorder]

Wow, I hate spam just as much as the next guy, but it seems kind of disturbing that people would take the phrase "spammers should die" so literally.  I guess it was the only to get it through his head (no pun intended) that spamming is bad.

[E_Look]

Mafiosi don't stop on their own.  They get stopped.  While what he did was nonviolent, it is completely disruptive to the lives of many.  I agree, this vigilante killing of him was wrong, and should have been jailed instead, but I think the authorities there aren't yet in a mood to pay attention to that part of their jobs.

[MrCue]

maybe the could put all spammers in prison for their own protection 

[E_Look]

We could put them all together in isolation and give them nothing but an internal LAN... connected to only themselves!

[Mackie]

[mr burns] eeeeexcellent. [/mr burns]