Microsoft lawyers have used a novel legal strategy to go after the spammers that send us all bucketloads of spam. Spammers use large computers that spew out spam to captive botnets, which are computers that have been taken over through viruses unbeknownst to their owners, which in turn multiply and send the spam to all of us. The Achilles' heel of spammers is that they have to have legitimate domain addresses for their master servers and these are regulated by an international organization and without a recognized domain, they cannot get on the net. Microsoft filed suit to take away the domain names for the master servers and it looks like a Federal judge is about to order the international registry to do just that. If that happens, then no on ramp to the internet for spammers and no spam. Excellent! As much as it pains me, props to Microsoft and their lawyers.
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