November 03, 2004

A victory against spam? Not really.

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.

Posted by cedric at November 3, 2004 03:41 PM
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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.

Posted by: Tinou Bao at November 3, 2004 04:37 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.

Posted by: at November 3, 2004 06:31 PM

That's not quite "Pyrrhic" - it was not achieved at excessive cost. More like "empty" or "misleading".

Posted by: Jon at November 4, 2004 02:17 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.

Posted by: Cameron at November 4, 2004 05:46 AM
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