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In the 2000s, Somnath Bharti ran a Delhi-based IT firm Madgen solutions' based in Delhi. The Spamhaus Project accused him ofspamming on behalf of TopSites LLC, naming him in Register of Known Spam Operations(ROKSO) as one of the top spam operators in the world.[6] According to Bharti, he was listed in ROKSO after an Open Directory Project editor Conrad Longmore ran a story on him.[7][8] Responding to a PCQuestinvestigation in 2005, he insisted that all the e-mails sent by his company complied with the laws and regulations. PCQuest found that he had been sued in a California Superior Court for spamming by Daniel Balsam. Balsam's attorney Timothy Walton revealed that in 2004, Bharti and two others had paid Balsam $5,000 in damages apart from making a court declaration agreeing to use only confirmed opt-in e-mail addresses when sending commercial e-mails. Bharti defended himself by saying that he chose to settle because defending the case in the United States would have been costlier for him. Bharti also claimed that he was in touch with SpamHaus, but the SpamHaus CEO Steve Linford denied this to PCQuest.[7]
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