http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...cepting%20Spam


could not have been released at a more ironic time:lol:

I'm certainly not trying to argue that email spam isn't an extremely large problem. I'm certainly arguing that we need to keep our reaction to it appropriate. Expressing joy that an individual is sentenced to such a hefty term of imprisonment IS, I'd argue, inappropriate.

One fella has been convicted of the crime here. Has he been responsible for 5 of those nuisance messages yesterday? 50? 500, perhaps, of the messages that server jwenting mentioned received? I'd think it damned unreasonable to beleive that he was responsible for all of them. Are we expecting him to bear the brunt of all our anger, simply by virtue of the fact that he's the one who was caught?

I'd consider a single 3 year term of imprisonment to be excessive. 9 years? Hell, people kill other people and spend less time in prison than that, sometimes!

I agree with Catweazle, a few clicks to delete the crap does not equal 9 years in jail.

Although, I do share quite a bias view since I only have about 5 spam emails to delete everyday. So you can take it for what it is worth.

I don't approve of giving someone the equivalent of a felony conviction for a little spam. However, it isn't much fun when you can't open your mail program and not be bothered with tons of bs. I had the problem when I lived in Europe but when I moved to the US and had to get another address, it stopped and I don't get anything now. Don't know why but I sure am a lot happier - I had to get rid of about 100 of these trash messages every day.

And when you try to stop them, you never know if when you put your email in that little stop subscription box you aren´t just making things worse.

We do so well with the spyware fixer programs, why can´t someone come up with a program that will ding the spammers. Start wiping out some of the relay addresses back along the line and they will stop...

9 years may be excessive, but if it sets an example others might be less anxious to start their own little spam enterprises.
Giving him a few weeks of community service wouldn't have caused more than a byline in a local newspaper (if that), giving him 9 years makes sure the case gets worldwide attention which may well have been why the verdict was as it came out.

So he's a sacrificial black goat. So what? He's out of the running for a good while.

While he wasn't responsible for all or maybe even most spam, he was responsible for enough to get law enforcement interested...
Take down the large ones and the small ones will fall by the wayside. The small ones are the ones easiest to block anyway as they're not the smart ones (if they were they'd be large ones).

I dont think a spammer should get 9 years in jail, when in the uk you can kill someone and be out of jail in 8 years.

I'm certainly not fussed in my own case, but if anyone else has been given negative 'reputation' points for simply expressing the view that spammers do not deserve such lengthy terms of imprisonment, please let me know by PM.

I consider that to be grossly unfair, and an abuse of the 'Reputation' system here!

All reputation systems are an invitation to abuse anyway so I don't use them.
Any way to turn it off?

This guy either has a crappy lawyer, or the judge was a victim of his spamming, because this is a long setence for something of this sort.

anyone caught spamming should be punished