freep: Internet spammer can't take what he dishes out

Last month Mike Wendland published a story highlighting the wealth of Alan Ralsky, one of the world's most prolific spammers. Slashdot picked up the article bringing Ralsky to the attention of a huge number of tech savvy individuals. Subseqent to this exposure it appears that the internet community has begun to take its revenge - an eye for an eye, a mail for a mail.

Ever since I wrote a story on him a couple of weeks ago, he says he's been inundated with ads, catalogs and brochures delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to his brand-new $740,000 . [..]

"They've signed me up for every advertising campaign and mailing list there is," he told me. "These people are out of their minds. They're harassing me."

My heart goes out to him