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Less Spam for Lunch (11/25/97)
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You may have heard this elsewhere by now, but we just had to mention the recent legal victory in the fight against spam. Craig Nowak didn't even bother showing up for his court hearing in Austin, Texas, at which a judge ordered him liable for $18,000 in damages and legal fees and forbade him to spam people in the future. There's more info on the case here.

Nowak apparently forged the sender information in his spam to appear to originate at a domain other than his own, which appears to be a fairly typical practice among spammers. In this particular case, Nowak's messages appeared to come from the domain flowers.com-- which is a real domain, which was subsequently flooded with irate messages from spam recipients. Ouch!

Nowak's loss is hopefully another step in the long struggle to reduce (and, dare we say, eliminate?) the pinkish luncheon meat from our inboxes.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/25/97 episode:

November 25, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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