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Spam History Goes '404'

Brian McWilliams writes over on the Spam Kings blog:

In recent weeks, spammers have been accused of trying to erase the past. But it seems that anti-spammers sometimes have an interest in obliterating the historical record as well.

Late in 2005, ancient spam king Jerry Reynolds sued anti-spammers Ed Falk and David Ritz to try to get Internet postings about his spam and porn operation removed. We also had the case of the anti-spam software company using search-engine tricks to hide complaints about its spamming. And most recently, there was the pill spammer suing to get Usenet postings about him taken down.

But some anti-spammers have (preemptively?) taken to scrubbing their sites clean of spam-fighting records.

posted by Fergie @ 1/25/2006 03:33:00 PM