[wordup] spammer attacked by irony.

[Adam Shand]

Via: Richard Schwartfeger <richard.schwartfeger at virgin.net>
From: http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend6_20021206.htm

Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out

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
(http://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.