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Comments on news posted 2005-07-25 13:59:27: According to Mosnews, 35 year old Vardan Kushnir, Russia's largest spammer, was found dead in his Moscow apartment over the weekend. ..

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john262

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I hate spammers, but that is going too far.

I would draw the line at killing them.
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BarneyBadAss
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Re: I hate spammers, but that is going too far.

Perhaps he spamed his ISP and he caught a "Virus" or some "SPYWARE?"

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Re: I hate spammers, but that is going too far.

said by BarneyBadAss:

Perhaps he spamed his ISP and he caught a "Virus" or some "SPYWARE?"
Or maybe Hormel put out a contract on him for ruining the good name of SPAM.;):D
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ylen131

join:2000-02-09
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the russian way,if you can't stop them just kill them
Avder

join:2002-05-08
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Now he can telemarket for satan!

Pirate515
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Re: I hate spammers, but that is going too far.

said by Avder:

Now he can telemarket for Satan!
...and according to the famous joke, God wouldn't be able to find a lawyer in heaven to sue his ass.
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said by john262:

I would draw the line at killing them.
I would too, however there's probably something to be said about the deterrent value of the thought of being bludgeoned to death for irritating others with spam. . .
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lefty1

join:2002-10-25
Clay, NY
Yeah, I feel real bad about it. Boo hoo. BTW, What's the name of the president of Claria?

ToxicDrew
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Oh great I hope he doesn't spam us from the other side with discounted coffins, buy cementary lots in bulk spam.
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peter_m
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To those of you who didn't read the whole article:

"...The users (spammed) also participated in phone DDOS campaigns themselves, with thousands of angry calls on one day. An online magazine encouraged its readers to call on April 17, 2003 and pretend to sign up for the courses or request extensive information [2].

A culmination of the backlash were probably the actions of Andrey Korotkov, then Russian Deputy Minister of Communications, whose angry message addressed to ALC was recorded and sent every 10 seconds to ALC (Vardan Kushnir's business) phone numbers using the infrastructure of Russia's largest ISP...."

Talk about sticking it to a spammer... wow, I have respect for the russians.
sirhailstone

join:2001-12-01
Indianapolis, IN
Not like the flow of UBE/UCE is going to slow down, he's bound to have a "Lieutenant" or some assistant that will assume control of ALC and his spamming "enterprise". Sort of like if something unfortunate were to happen to the likes of Alan Ralsky, Scott Richter, and Robert Soloway there will be someone to come along to take their places.

marbat

join:2004-08-28
Teaneck, NJ

Wow

Thats.... hilarious

pcscdma
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Re: Wow

Well, that's one way of taking care of spammers.
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Thaler
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Re: Wow

Spambusters, b*tch!

pjhofmann

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said by marbat:

Thats.... hilarious
While I loath spammers as much as anyone I hardly see how the murder of a human being can be considered 'hilarious'.

B52GUNR
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Re: Wow

Easy, don't consider spammers human. It works for me.

Big thumbs up to the person who did the world a service!

Mactron
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Re: Wow

*Checks cheeks for tears*...

None found !

MysticGogeta
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Re: Wow

lol same here russian mafia checking email this probally pissed them off spammers beware! lol

Pirate515
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Re: Wow

said by MysticGogeta:

lol same here russian mafia checking email this probally pissed them off spammers beware! lol
Yep, "BRATVA" tends to get impatient when they have to sift through thousands of other scams to get updates on their own. Did I mention that they shoot first, and then think later?
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Mordhem
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Re: Wow

Gooo Russian Mafia!!!

war_by_proxy

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Re: Wow

He deserved to die. Spammers just aren't human. Wait, wasn't that what the Nazis used as an excuse to kill the Jews?

alizard

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while I could invoke Godwin's Law...

I'll just point out an obvious fact you missed.
There's a big difference between hating spammers and Jews. Nobody is born a spammer, people have to choose to go into that kind of antisocial business.
One dead spammer is. . . a good start.

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Re: Wow

said by war_by_proxy:

He deserved to die. Spammers just aren't human. Wait, wasn't that what the Nazis used as an excuse to kill the Jews?
Serial killers aren't human, we should kill them... Wait, wasn't that what the Nazis used as an excuse to kill the Jews?
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said by Pirate515:

Yep, "BRATVA" tends to get impatient when they have to sift through thousands of other scams to get updates on their own. Did I mention that they shoot first, and then think later?
There is a thought process involved using gun barrel diplomacy in this case.?
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RavenOfNY

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Not only is his death not hilarious, but it seems that most people here fell into a trap of "blaming the messenger". When you receive junk mail in your mailbox, do you blame or want to kill your mailman for delivering it to you?

Well guess what, Vardan Kushnir was just that. He delivered someone else's mail. By no means will I advocate his methods of accomplishing this. However, in the end, I'd much sooner want to punish the companies who use spammers than spammers themselves. Without those companies, there would be no spammers. It's that simple.

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said by pjhofmann:

said by marbat:

Thats.... hilarious
While I loath spammers as much as anyone I hardly see how the murder of a human being can be considered 'hilarious'.
Murder can't be considered 'hilarious by anyone's standards.However if one barks up the wrong tree, at the wrong person,too many times shit happens.Considering the Russians play by a different set of rules than us.They elimanted a pest,that was cutting into their vodka happy hour.One to many times,That'll learn em'
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parasonic
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Heh, I couldn't help...
steveca

join:2003-11-02
West Friendship, MD

Gangsta

I don't want to say he deserved it but... Good riddance.

tonyfer2

join:2002-08-14
Elizabeth, NJ

Re: Gangsta

but he did! he deserved it thay should all get kill!:o
stunod2002

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said by tonyfer2:

but he did! he deserved it thay should all get kill!:o
Your an idiot!
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It's the work of the MI6.
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QuickPick

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Good Riddance

I guess when you send spam to billions, you bound to piss off the wrong person

CPM
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Well what goes around comes around.

Well, One less spammer in the world. I don't like Russians anyways.

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fsadsf

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lol

Surely such a profession would not engender you to much sympathy in the aftermath of your death. I wonder if it was a business deal gone awry, or vigilante justice? "You never delivered your end on our e-mail address database transaction, and now you must answer to Hans... mauahahah"

Goodbye

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Re: lol

Oh well. He wasn't exactly working on the cure for cancer. Society will be fine without him.
JJV
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Cyberscan

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He won't spam again

I myself would not have murdered him (unless he was hawking kiddy porn), however I would have done just about anything to his equipment and business. I do however have one good thing to say about what happened. He will not be sending anybody any more spam
mooty

join:2001-01-28
Riverdale, GA

Back in the USSR

Hmm...competition to be the biggest spammer in Russia must be VERY FIERCE!
Derfel

join:2004-06-06
Winnipeg, MB

You're Welcome

The murder wasn't related to his spamming, of course.

Rothan Tik
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.

In soviet russia, video game play you!

freebird317
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Re: .

said by Rothan Tik:

In soviet russia, video game play you!
LOL

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said by Rothan Tik:

In soviet russia, video game play you!
Did you get that from Family Guy RP?

This one is much better:

In Soviet Russia spam deletes you!
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mikejz84

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LOL from /.

From a hidden microphone at the scene of the murder:

"You are receiving *WHAM* this blow to the head *WHAM* because you are part of a *WHAM* specially-selected list of *WHAM* people who agreed to receive *WHAM* blows to the head *WHAM*.

To stop *WHAM* receiving these *WHAM* blows to the head, please *WHAM* email us at no-more-please@optout.blowtothehead. com and *WHAM* we will remove you from our list of *WHAM* blow-to-the-head-club members *WHAM* (heh, we said "club"!) *WHAM* within 24 to 48 hours."

footballdude
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Re: LOL from /.

said by mikejz84:

From a hidden microphone at the scene of the murder:
Freaking awesome! Love it.

alphapointe
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Reminds me of that Dr. Demento thing...
*BOOT TO THE HEAD*
cbrain

join:2000-05-21
Silver Spring, MD

Overkill?

Let's see how this affects the volume of spam before we decide on the effectiveness of this method.

GilbertMark
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Gilbert, AZ

Hmm.

One less useless person in the world.

garagerock
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Louisville, KY

morons

someone dies, and it's "hilarious"? y'all have sunk to a new low, spammer or not.

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Italia3
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That's Low

Well, it is sad to hear that is how the Russians decided to deal w/ the spam crap was to delete him off the planet. However, according to the article, I think it's b/c most the of spam consisted of LEARNING ENGLISH. If it was porn (if it's legal in Russia?) or for a worthy cause like helping the poor & illiterate, then maybe he would not have had as many enemies.

Oh well....life shall go on.

guest1892734

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He killed more lives

By rough estimates, sending 100000000 messages each spam session is wasting total of 4 years of human time. He's wasted more than one human life within his business.
b10010011
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Score one for the good guys!

Too bad he was 15 years too late. If this was happening back then we may not have such a huge spam problem we have now.

thankgodforsmallfavo

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guitarzan See Profile

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...

Hope they tortured the SOB before they killed him. The only good Spammer is a DEAD Spammer and let's hope that ALL Spammers get the same treatment as this SCUMBAG got!

war_by_proxy

join:2004-06-15
Houston, TX

Re: Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...

You talk, but you couldn't have laid a hand on him. It's quite different if you are in the room. Murder is never justifiable, certainly not in revenge for spam.

guitarzan
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Maybe the Russian Mafia can get after unregged anon spammers such as Taylor.When they finish off the spammers that irk them?
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vpoko
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Some people are sick

Though I think most of you saying "good, he deserved it" are just posting for attention. At least I hope it's rhetoric. He might have been a vile human being but there's no way that someone guilty of spamming deserves the death penalty (even if it's a lynching). This won't make spam go away (or even slow down) because 100 other people will be there to take his place, and in the meantime he leaves behind grieving family who had nothing to do with his spam endeavors.

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