Joey McNicol
Encyclopedia
Joey McNicol is an activist against E-mail spam
. He became notable after a high profile court case in which he was the defendant. The case alleged that he had caused IP address
es of companies controlled by Wayne Mansfield
to be blacklisted. The case against him was dismissed in October 2002.
E-mail spam
Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email , is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. One subset of UBE is UCE...
. He became notable after a high profile court case in which he was the defendant. The case alleged that he had caused IP address
IP address
An Internet Protocol address is a numerical label assigned to each device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing...
es of companies controlled by Wayne Mansfield
Wayne Mansfield
Wayne Mansfield, of Perth, Australia, was the head of direct marketing business T3 Direct Marketing, operating under a series of two-dollar companies, and in 2005 became the first Australian to be prosecuted for email spamming....
to be blacklisted. The case against him was dismissed in October 2002.
External links
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Joe Fights Spam(Inactive as of 2010) - Details of the case against McNicol (Inactive as of 2010) Wayback Machine listing for this page