Web Host Industry News has reported that Project Honey Pot has filed a lawsuit … a 1 Billion Dollar lawsuit … against spammers.

After reading about this, I’ve visited Project Honey Pot, signed up for an account, and added a honey pot page to my website.

According to reports released late last week, a Utah-based anti-spam group called Project Honey Pot (projecthoneypot.org) has filed suit in the Eastern District of Virginia, seeking damages for email harvesting and spam on behalf of its project members.

The lawsuit reportedly marks the first time the CAN-SPAM Act has been used to single out the practice of email harvesting, in which algorithms are used to crawl the internet looking for email addresses to target with spam.

The lawsuit was filed against the universe of John Doe defendants represented by the more than 2.5 million IP addresses captured by Project Honey Pot over the past two years, and could represent more than $1 billion in statutory damages under CAN-SPAM and Virginia’s anti-spam laws.

Project Honey Pot says it has identified more than 15,000 email harvesters and 668 comment spammers that target forums and blogs. The project has thousands of members contributing from around the world.