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Comment by joering2 | Hacker News Reader

You really can't think of any other? AirBNB? Ran by a spammer from FBI Top 100 list??

http://gawker.com/5853754/the-seedy-spammy-past-of-airbnbs-c...

The article doesn't mention the FBI most wanted list, where did you get that from? Are you confusing ROKSO w/ the FBI? Spamhaus is a crooked extortion organization ran by former spammers themselves, not some squeaky clean protectors of the Internet.

Indeed, it's a list of about 100 registered known spammers from SpamHaus. Really nothing to do with the FBI whatsoever.

The dude paid his tuition by sending SPAMS. Should have seen the rare combination of tech and business talent earlier!

I'm puzzled. I have been referring to a quite old article that doesn't mention anything about FBI anymore. Unless I'm heaving early Alzheimer, I can swear reading at multiple spots that Nathan Blecharczyk was once on 100 FBI top wanted. I'm confused by this, however I guess the minimum I can do is not mention that "fact" anymore.

From the article that was linked in a few posts up: He was running a major spam operation, and he got into a list of known spammers arranged by SpamHaus (an anti spam organization). The list happens to have about 100 people.

It's said that he received a few letters from the FBI and other law enforcements while he was running the operations. Nothing specific.

Thank you. I'm still puzzled why would PG want to do business with someone like that, other than pure greed.

This actually raises my opinion of Airbnb substantially, thought they were all design school guys.

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