What comes around, goes around

Shirley_Ujest · January 6, 2003, 4:25am

From **The News of the Weird **

Following a Detroit Free Press interview in November with bulk e-mailer Alan Ralsky (who gloated that his success at sending “spam” advertising had paid for his $740,000 home), Internet spam-haters tracked down Ralsky’s West Bloomfield, Mich., address and inundated him with thousands of unsolicited hardcopy catalogs and mailings.

In another case, following news that the Pentagon had hired former Reagan administration official John Poindexter to oversee the creation of software that could track nearly all consumer transactions in the country, an SF Weekly (San Francisco) columnist released Poindexter’s home phone number, and Internet activists set up a Web site for tracking all of Poindexter’s personal transactions. [Detroit Free Press, 11-22-02, 12-6-02] [San Jose Mercury News, 12-19-02]

A little sunshine to start the week

Where is a sunshine smilies when we need it?

misstee · January 6, 2003, 3:43pm

This makes my heart happy.

Amp · January 6, 2003, 3:51pm

Well, we know who’s watching the watchers.

welby · January 6, 2003, 3:52pm

Man, if ever someone deserved junk mail, he’d be the guy. From the Detroit Free Press Article :

Why not just come out and say “I’m an asshole. I enjoy making people angry, wasting resources, and getting paid for it!”