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Article #136Re: FINALLY- spammer gets prison time
From: CalgaryBill
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:34
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:34
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"santos" <president@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message news:o_ejd.113432$9b.21617@edtnps84... > 8 yrs in prison seems a bit harsh for sending spam email dont you think... > thats about the same as a very serious assault (permanent injury) or a > violent rape.... dont think unwanted junk email rates up there... > I'd bet that if one adds up the few seconds that are wasted for every individual spammed, it would add up to the equivalent of years of lost time ... comparable to a serious assault in terms of life-time lost. Then add up the dollar cost of bandwidth used by all the ISPs which process the SPAM, and then the cost of lost opportunity / speed with all of the individual PCs that have been co-opted to assist in sending.. If we were talking about a single piece of SPAM / chain letter, or whatever, it's significant. Multiply that by the hundreds, no thousands, no actually at least 10s of thousands of different pieces of SPAM, then he has cost many lifetimes worth of misery. Hang the rotten son-of-a-bitch.
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