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Damn, called someone a noob and it just came right back at me.

From what I’ve seen on his resume, he supposedly managed the legal department of some company–without having any background in law or business whatsoever (he probably was a clerk or something). He also worked in the ADVERTISEMENT department of another company. Put that experience together, add the can-spam law, some targets that everybody hate, and you get money! Except he picked a wrong guy this time and he’s getting rightfully screwed.

If you’re gonna tell me he makes a living as the ‘webguy’, guess again. In the ‘our users’ section of webguy.net, he proudly boasts his only credentials: Four certificates from–get this–brainbench.com! They are for html 3.2, html 4.0, and Computer Industry Knowledge. Oh, I forgot to mention the prestegeous “MS Windows 95 Navigation” that he RECEIVED IN 2003!!! If that’s not enough to convince you, below is part the source directly taken from webguy.net:
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His page, supposedly, is created to ask for help and informing others of what happened. But he starts it off with his own advertisement of his own services linked to his business site.

“He runs a one-man web hosting design shop… world class design and hosting packages for absurdly affordable prices.”

In my book, this is no better than spam. Besides which, his site sucks: It’s ugly, doesn’t render correctly in Firefox, no CSS, and his HTML doesn’t even validate. But this isn’t about his skills, so I’ll move on.

“WebGuy offers the spammers an extremely generous “out of courtâ€� settlement offer of 5¢ on the dollar. WebGuy offers to settle a $150,000.00 lawsuit for a measly $6,250.”

So this guy threatens to sue if they don’t pay? He’s a friggin golddigger. “Extremely generous” my arse! He wants free money! His excuse for the threat is as below.

“WebGuy is forced to change email addresses with hundreds of people. WebGuy now risks not receiving important email now that a key “business use onlyâ€� email address is contaminated.”

Umm… would you be forced to change your email address if you’re getting one junkmail from one company once a week with the very deceiving subject of “Weekly Cruise E-deals” from the very deceiving sender by the name of cruisedeals@cruise.com? Hell, I’d be jumping up and down in joy if that’s all I’m getting. This is one sorry excuse.

After they ignore his threat, he gets pissed and put them up on sueaspammer.com. Now, from what I know, cruise.com is a valid company associated with valid cruiseliners (like orbitz or travelocity). Of course they’ll sue for defamation if they’ve been defamed.

I personally never got spam from cruise.com, but I’m fairly sure that a company grossing $800 million a year will not risk ignoring a removal letter. Speaking of which, all of his proof of the bombardment of spams link to the same page of one spam dated December 29th 2004. Maybe he did that to save bandwidth. But isn’t it more likely that cruise.com didn’t really send him spam after his request for removal?

Most people know not to belive everything on TV, but the same people believe everything they read on the internet. This strikes me odd: At least on TV, it takes a bunch of people with similar perspective on a given subject to invest lots of money for production and airtime–as opposed to a web page that can be made by a single moron with a single moronic perspective with an investment of a couple of happy meals.