It’s a start: Spammer gets jail time

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Wed, 07/16/2008 - 9:45am

There have been a few high profile penalties against spammers of late, but they all lack one key ingredient–jail time.

To wit: MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement MySpace’s $230 million spam win: Will it really be a deterrent?

Yahoo sues ‘lottery’ spammers But there are no spammers in the slammer. That may be changing (I hope). Reuters [...]


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