Did Microsoft nab the wrong spammer?
C|Net | at | by Mike
Shortly after the Redmond, Wash. software maker held its Anglo-Washingtonian press conference to announce 15 separate lawsuits against spammers here and in the United Kingdom, reports started cropping up in the British press about one Simon Grainger, a Microsoft spam defendant loudly proclaiming his innocence.
"I didn't even know what the writ was, the first time I read it," the stunned Grainger told the Liverpool Daily Post. "It's the kind of thing that would give you a heart attack."
Grainger, a 43-year-old telecommunications engineer and father of three daughters, says he bought a domain name once owned by a spammer, and has won support for his claims of innocence from U.K.-based antispam group the Spamhaus Project.