At 05:01 AM 2/13/2003 -0800, SIMS Discussions wrote:
Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:10:36 On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:04 am, chris wrote:They have a couple tera bytes gathered now. Their server storage size is limited to 1.x TB (1.4? can remember) so they only have that last 18 months live, the rest is archived. By doing a FOIA request you can request they search the records for a spammer you are tracking. However they have to scrub each record by "hand" before they release it so the cost is a couple bucks a page. Still it has been useful (in real life) to have that large database for when you do file, say, a class action, against a spammer. The FTC gives you an estimate of what it would cost before they start so it is a fairly painless way of seeing how bad a boy/girl the spammer's been just by the number of records that come up, presuming you have good/unique search termst to give them.
> Depending on what the FTC is doing with it (why do I have a feeling they
> are just sending that account to "/dev/null"), you risk marking an
> innocent person as a spammer.
That was my take on it anyway. The database could at least in theory be
used to build some decent cases of abuse of service down the road. It
didn't sound like the current tactic however.
Joe
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