Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Rot in hell...
Unrepentant spammer to carry on, within the law | CNET News.com
His home address was published on the net last year. His response is quite amusing.
6747 Minnow Pond Drive
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Enjoy!
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Alan Ralsky, according to experts in the field, has long been one of the most prolific senders of junk e-mail messages in the world. But he has not sent a single message over the Internet in the last few weeks.Hey Ralsky! Can I have your email address? I have some wonderful offers for penis enlargement and mortgage refinance that I would love to share with you.
He plans to resume in January, he said, after he overcomes some computer problems, and only after he changes his practices to include in his messages a return address and other information required by the law, the title of which stands for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing.
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"The law was not written for a commercial e-mailer," he said. "I don't think what they are doing is fair." He suggested that the law was largely a plot by the big companies that connect homes and businesses to the Internet to keep all the profits from online marketing for themselves.
"I have never once been ashamed of what I do," he said. "I feel this is a business that has afforded me and my customers a better way of life."
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"I have changed the way we mail totally," he said. The spam fighters, he added, "have no idea what I'm mailing. They could never pinpoint it and say this is from Al Ralsky."
Ralsky said that he was uncomfortable about this deception, but that he had no choice. "Is putting bogus information in your registrations the right way to do business?" he asked. "No. But the Internet world has forced me to do that."
His home address was published on the net last year. His response is quite amusing.
"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." Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers.By the way, that address is:
6747 Minnow Pond Drive
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Enjoy!
