On Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 10:54am in a court in the Eastern District of Virginia, Project Honey Pot filed the largest anti-spam lawsuit ever. Seeking more than $1B in statutory damages, the suit was brought on behalf of our members. It targets a huge swath of spammers. If you’ve harvested email addresses or sent spam in the last two years, chances are you’re on our radar screen and we’re coming after you.

As some of you may have seen, the press coverage of this major announcement has already begun. We will post a link to the complaint here as soon as it is available.

This is, of course, only one step in a long journey to make the Internet a better place. But it’s an especially important step because it was not brought by a single ISP or regional prosecutor. This suit was brought by you: the volunteer members of Project Honey Pot representing more than 100 countries around the world. It was brought, in effect, by the Internet community. And, as a community, we are sick and tired of this crap and it’s time for it to stop.

This suit would not be possible without your help. It is you who take the time to install honey pot pages, donate MX records, and share the data they generate with us. Thank you all. Please keep up the great work.Project Honeypot