Thursday, December 11, 2003

Death Knell For Spammers?

Holy Crap! A man has been arrested and charged with a felony for sending spam emails.

The Virginia indictment alleges that Jeremy Jaynes sent more than 10,000 e-mails a day on three days in July and August, through servers located in Virginia. More than 100,000 messages were sent over a 30-day period, it says. Those amounts are enough to trigger the criminal provisions of Virginia's antispam law.

This may be the beginning of the end for spammers. The guy could be spending the next 1-5 years cooling his heels in prison, which is better than he deserves.

According to antispam organization Spamhaus, "Jaynes" is well-known for pornographic and "get rich quick" offers online and was ranked No. 8 on the group's top 10 spammers list for November.

If only they could send the people who set the movie prices to jail too.

-Gary Milner, still encourages downloading movies off the internet.

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