FC: Australia update: Spam lawsuit and "e-security" threats

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 20:17:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charles Oriez <coriez () yahoo com>
Reply-To: coriez () oriez org
Subject: Aussie spammer sues over SPEWS listing
To: declan () well com

Irony is that the person he's suing has nothing to do with SPEWS.
SPEWS receives spam at its spamtrap addresses, sends complaints,
lists when complaints arent acted on.  No one has the ability,
supposedly, to make nominations, and SPEWS does not accept email.
They research before listing, and link to pages of spam victims who
post evidence against the spammers to augment their own evidence.

Discussion is happening on both NANAE and SPAM-L

SPEWS listing:

http://www.spews.org/html/S1488.html

Page they think caused the SPEWS listing:

http://www.vtgts.com/auspam.htm

Mirrors, just in case:

http://www.spamblocked.com/auspam.html
http://oriez.org/spammerscum/ausspam.html

respondent:
"Jomac" <jomac () vtgts com>

cartooney for the plaintiff:
http://www.tan-tan.com.au/
enquiries () tan-tan com au

IPAs to block for anyone not using SPEWS:

T3Group
|--------------------
1, 202.154.73.131, t3direct.com.au
1, 202.154.79.66, mail.t3direct.com.au
1, 202.154.79.0/25, t3direct.com.au
1, 202.139.241.136, www.t3direct.com.au
1, 202.139.241.128/25, t3direct.com.au
1, 203.55.16.6, titan.t3direct.com.au
1, 203.55.16.0/25, t3direct.com.au
---------------------|

Upstream of spammer is swiftel.com.au

Statement of T3 on their web page at
http://www.t3direct.com.au/privacy.asp admitting that they spam:

"Collection of Marketing Information from the WWW

We collect eMail contact addresses from various publicly available
sources and other marketing promotions. We understand you may wish
NOT to receive information from us by eMail. To be removed from our
lists simply write to admin () t3direct com au with "REMOVE" in the
subject line. We maintain a "Opt Out" List and we will add your
request to that list."

So they add email addresses without permission.  They're going to
have a hard time claiming now that they don't.

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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:55:20 +1000
From: Glenn Barry <gbarry () sydney net>
Organization: McCallum Consultants
To: Neil Schwartzman <neil () petemoss com>, declan () well com
Subject: Re: LEGAL: T3 Direct Spammers Sues Anti Spammer


Neil Schwartzman wrote:

> You should send this to Declan McCullah at declan () well com; he'll
> print it on politech, for sure, and maybe cover it for wired. this is
> quite serious ...

Court Documents now up.

http://t3-v-mcnicol.ilaw.com.au/

GB

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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:31:48 +1000
From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochrane () theage fairfax com au>
Reply-To: ncochrane () theage fairfax com au
Organization: The Age newspaper
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () wired com>
Subject: APEC should act on e-security threats Australia urges

Hi Declan


How coincidental given the JEC's report today:

APEC Action on E-security

The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, 
Senator Richard Alston, today called for urgent collaboration among 
Asia-Pacific economies to deal with e-security threats. He was leading 
debate at the APEC Telecommunications and Information Ministers meeting in 
Shanghai, China where e-security has been identified by APEC members as 
amongst the top priorities facing APEC economies.

http://www.dcita.gov.au/cgi-bin/graphics.pl?path=6493
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Nathan Cochrane
Deputy IT Editor
:Next:
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.next.theage.com.au




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