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NEW YORK MySpace wins junk message suit


Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 3:32 a.m.
The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $234 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever, the Associated Press has learned.

A federal judge ruled against two of the Internet's most prominent spam defendants, Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, after the two failed to show up at a court hearing Monday.

Wallace has earned the nicknames "Spamford" and "Spam King" for his past role as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s.

-- Associated Press


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