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Far, far too many people to list. Adam Orth is a very recent example who also suffered real consequences.



Also Adria Richards, Paul Christoforo, Woody Harrelson's management (post-Rampart AMA), etc, etc. Perhaps a 1st annual lifetime achievement to Sanford Wallace for his pioneering work in this area.


Surely Canter & Siegel deserve first place. I was priviledged to be one of just thousands of people to inform them that their "green card lottery" usenet post was inappropriate when I first saw it in a comp.sys. newsgroup. Turns out everyone else on usenet had the same idea - it took out the mail server of one of the larger ISPs of the time. This was the seminal spam event - the term was coined because of this event.


There's actually a name for the phenomenon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

I am 100% in support of such a plaque.


Barbara Streisand deserves a mention.


How about Harlan Ellison? Although in a strange way he seems to be winning by virtue of being more stubborn than the rest of the internet combined.





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