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EMarketersAmerics vs. SPEWS et. al.

In 2003, because they were feeling the effects of the growing use of such anti-spam measures as blocklists used to reject email traffic from known spam sources on the Internet, a number of spammers, primarily in Florida, hired a lawyer to file a frivilous law suit against a number of individuals active in the anti-spam community.         EMarketersAmerica v. Spews.org, et al         Multiple Mirrors of Information on the Lawsuit     The spammers and their lawyer eventually withdrew the suit when confronted with a real lawyer, Pete Welllborn, whose fillings confronted the spammers with looming discovery that would of course have revealed who they were, and the real motivations behind the case. But the consequences of the suit were tens of thosands of dollars of legal expenses for the defendents. Please consider donating to the SpamCon legal defense fund, which has helped pay off the legal fees accrued to the defendents by this SLAPP-style suit.         Donate to SpamCon Foundation     The apparent true purpose of the lawsuit was the hope on the part of the spammers that legal threats against individual anti-spammers might result in one of them revealing the identity of those operating a widely known blocklist of netblocks of Internet Service Providers which appear to not take action to stop spam and spam support services on their netblocks, Spews.org