### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammers-sue-anti-spam-groups-for-invasion-of-privacy/170851/1 "2003-04-24T14:33:22Z")
Working definition of [chutzpah](http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30368.html)
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> A group of Florida-based porn peddlers, penis enlargement and Viagra spammers has united to file suit against anti-spam organisations.
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> Under the newly-registered name [EmarketersAmerica.org](http://EmarketersAmerica.org), a front set up by notorious spammer Eddy Marin’s lawyer Mark E. Felstein, the suit seeks to force prominent anti-spam organisations to stop blocking their spam.
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> The civil action law-suit, filed on April 14, seeks an injunction against anti-spam organisation on behalf of the plaintiffs. It also seek damages of $75,000 (plus interest and costs) against the defendants on five separate counts: blacklisting IP addresses of the plaintiffs, libel, invasion of privacy, the publication of allegedly false information and “intentional interference with a contract”.
How dare those anti spammers prevent me from getting my Viagra spams.
Fuckers.
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### Author:  [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammers-sue-anti-spam-groups-for-invasion-of-privacy/170851/2 "2003-04-24T15:10:07Z")
Well boo-flipping-hoo! Those spamming shitheads should be relieved that all they’re having to deal with is invasion of privacy. If I had my way they’d all be thrown into a lake filled with piranhas :mad: Same to the shits who send virus-laden emails. Die! Die! 😃
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammers-sue-anti-spam-groups-for-invasion-of-privacy/170851/3 "2003-04-24T15:54:02Z")
**SweetLucy** , what did those poor piranhas ever do to you?
I think that laws against ‘street justice’ should be repealed for flagrant spammers. Let the email-receiving public be judge, jury and executioner.
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### Author:  [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammers-sue-anti-spam-groups-for-invasion-of-privacy/170851/4 "2003-04-24T15:59:56Z")
If you want I can forward an e-mail I got today advertising some spam filter program. That’s what **I** call chutzpah.
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### Author:  [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammers-sue-anti-spam-groups-for-invasion-of-privacy/170851/5 "2003-04-24T18:25:06Z")
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> \*Originally posted by D\_Odds \*
> **I think that laws against ‘street justice’ should be repealed for flagrant spammers.**
But if we don’t receive spam then the terrorists have already won.
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### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammers-sue-anti-spam-groups-for-invasion-of-privacy/170851/6 "2003-04-24T18:52:31Z")
If letting the terrorists win ends spam, then maybe I’m on the wrong side.
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammers-sue-anti-spam-groups-for-invasion-of-privacy/170851/7 "2003-04-25T02:05:12Z")
Must…resist…evil…urge!
Can’t resist any longer, this urge is IRRESISTABLE!
[Drat those Vikings!](http://www.wilken.freeserve.co.uk/Montypython/Songs/song47.htm)
😃
:: Ducks and Runs ::
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spammers-sue-anti-spam-groups-for-invasion-of-privacy/170851/8 "2003-04-25T02:07:16Z")
Ok, done with being silly for now.
That is pretty assinine. I hope they end up losing the countersuits. Spammers are vile creatures.