Reply #18: I disagree . .

[msmcghee]

. . people have a right of free speech. But thay can not come into my house while I'm eating dinner and insist on selling me things.

If spam was required to be labelled as such I would block it by that label - or better, I would use a provider who blocked it before it was even put in my mailbox.

Spam as it is now is a theft of the bandwidth that I am paying for as well as an invasion of my privacy. Multiply that by millions per hour and you start to get an idea of the seriousness of this. We're talking about the ability to use the internet for anything - not just mass mailings.

I'm glad he got a stiff sentence - especially if it dissuades a few more of those assholes.