Cameron rejoices over the fate of two spammers who were convicted, fined
and jailed in Virginia. Unfortunately, this is a pyrrhic victory since
these spammers are actually being convicted for fraud: the article they
sell simply does not exist.
I will start celebrating when even sellers of legitimate goods get fined for spamming.
#1 by Tinou Bao on November 3, 2004 - 4:37 pm
While I don’t like spam I wonder why people are more upset with email spam than regular mail spam. Filters have worked pretty well for me, compared to manually sorting out and opening letters.
#2 by Anonymous on November 3, 2004 - 6:31 pm
You must get tons of regular mail spam. I get 4 or 5 a week. If I only got 4 or 5 email spam messages a week, I wouldn’t be upset. 100+ a day? I get pretty pissed off. Lock ‘em up.
#3 by Jon on November 4, 2004 - 2:17 am
That’s not quite “Pyrrhic” – it was not achieved at excessive cost. More like “empty” or “misleading”.
#4 by Cameron on November 4, 2004 - 5:46 am
If I only got 100 a day, I’d be happy as a pig in shit. The problem is that 100 a day get through my filters, because they are only 90% effective.