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