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Who else would receive such an award?

by lifeformed 14y ago

TillE 14y ago
Far, far too many people to list. Adam Orth is a very recent example who also suffered real consequences.
- georgemcbay 14y ago
  Also Adria Richards, Paul Christoforo, Woody Harrelson's management (post-Rampart AMA), etc, etc. Perhaps a 1st annual lifetime achievement to Sanford Wallace for his pioneering work in this area.
  - salgernon 14y ago
    Surely Canter & Siegel deserve first place. I was priviledged to be one of just thousands of people to inform them that their "green card lottery" usenet post was inappropriate when I first saw it in a comp.sys. newsgroup. Turns out everyone else on usenet had the same idea - it took out the mail server of one of the larger ISPs of the time. This was the seminal spam event - the term was coined because of this event.
  - Total_Meltdown 14y ago
    There's actually a name for the phenomenon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect I am 100% in support of such a plaque.
  - andybak 14y ago
    How about Harlan Ellison? Although in a strange way he seems to be winning by virtue of being more stubborn than the rest of the internet combined.
  - recursive 14y ago
    Barbara Streisand deserves a mention.
- hkmurakami 14y ago
  Carmen Ortiz? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR
jws 14y ago
Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens would have been an excellent candidate.
- sesqu 14y ago
  I'm not so sure about that. A lot of people were amused by his comments, by many fewer were actually offended. He did suffer some setbacks, but nothing career-threatening.
greenyoda 14y ago
I nominate the Prenda law firm, which sued lots of people for downloading copyrighted material and is now in increasingly deep legal trouble due to its questionable legal practices. You can read about the saga here: http://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law http://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law
InclinedPlane 14y ago
Jack Thompson
milkshakes 14y ago
Alan Ralsky[1] [1]: http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/spammer-gets-junkmailed.3495/ http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/spammer-gets-junkma...
vidarh 14y ago
An old one: Canter and Siegel (the latter posthumously) for the infamous first massively cross-posted commercial USENET spam.

Who else would receive such an award?

TillE 14y ago

Far, far too many people to list. Adam Orth is a very recent example who also suffered real consequences.

georgemcbay 14y ago
Also Adria Richards, Paul Christoforo, Woody Harrelson's management (post-Rampart AMA), etc, etc. Perhaps a 1st annual lifetime achievement to Sanford Wallace for his pioneering work in this area.
- salgernon 14y ago
  Surely Canter & Siegel deserve first place. I was priviledged to be one of just thousands of people to inform them that their "green card lottery" usenet post was inappropriate when I first saw it in a comp.sys. newsgroup. Turns out everyone else on usenet had the same idea - it took out the mail server of one of the larger ISPs of the time. This was the seminal spam event - the term was coined because of this event.
- Total_Meltdown 14y ago
  There's actually a name for the phenomenon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect I am 100% in support of such a plaque.
- andybak 14y ago
  How about Harlan Ellison? Although in a strange way he seems to be winning by virtue of being more stubborn than the rest of the internet combined.
- recursive 14y ago
  Barbara Streisand deserves a mention.
hkmurakami 14y ago
Carmen Ortiz? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR

jws 14y ago

Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens would have been an excellent candidate.

sesqu 14y ago
I'm not so sure about that. A lot of people were amused by his comments, by many fewer were actually offended. He did suffer some setbacks, but nothing career-threatening.

greenyoda 14y ago

I nominate the Prenda law firm, which sued lots of people for downloading copyrighted material and is now in increasingly deep legal trouble due to its questionable legal practices. You can read about the saga here: http://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law http://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law

InclinedPlane 14y ago

Jack Thompson

milkshakes 14y ago

Alan Ralsky[1] [1]: http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/spammer-gets-junkmailed.3495/ http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/spammer-gets-junkma...

vidarh 14y ago

An old one: Canter and Siegel (the latter posthumously) for the infamous first massively cross-posted commercial USENET spam.