RE: [OT] Russian way of fighting spam

["Pettit, Paul" <is...@ccbnpts.com>]

>
> http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.shtml 
>
> Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment
>
> Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of
> Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow
apartment
> on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated
blows
> to the head.
>

As noted in the \. discussion
(http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/07/25/1745212.shtml?tid=111&tid=218) following
the original report, it's highly unlikely this has much to do with spam per
say. Instead it's more probable that it has to do with the Russian mafia
since the bulk of illicit activity in Russa is frimly under their control.

Unfortunte (even sad) that this happened to him, even though he was a
spammer, but you reap what you sow. My hope is that he didn't leave anyone
behind that will be in harms way as well (i.e. kid, wife, etc.) as the
Russian mafia is notoriously efficent and brutal.

Paul Pettit
CTO and IS Manager
Consistent Computer Bargains Inc.

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