"... throw spammers in prison..." I just heard that on Air America Radio

[Swamp Rat]

Anybody know about this? Unfortunately I only heard the sentence fragment above. I tried a couple of search engines and various boolean operations using words like, "spam, spammer, legislation, bill" etc. but found nothing.

:shrug:

[goclark]

1. kick for answer

[Mr_Spock]

2. It's the only reason I can think of where the death penalty is appropriate

OMG - dozens of spam email messages per day, spam posts on my hobby sites, phone rings nonstops from 9AM to 9 PM. Is there no rest for the weary?

[Swamp Rat]

6. LOL!

:D

I've got most of it blocked out, but a few have gotten in recently. Time to update the server. ;)

[mark11727]

9. Never mind that --- bring me the head of the sumbitch who released

WinFixer.

[Mr_Spock]

14. It was 3 months before I could get that evil WinFixer off my machine

I was so pissed - popups in windows explorer, nevermind internet explorer! :mad:

[blogslut]

3. not heard anything new

One can go to jail for violating the CAN SPAM Act

[Swamp Rat]

7. yep, from 2003

I guess Alberto Gonzales is too busy cooking pro-torture tortas for his Master Bushler.

[longship]

4. No death penalty for spammers.

Reserve the ultimate penalty for the phishers.

I get a dozen phishing attempts a week, or more. And that's just the ones that get through SpamAssassin, Vorpul's Razor, Pyzor, and black list on my e-mail server. I pity the poor fools who don't have all that technology.

[Swamp Rat]

5. That reminds me, I need to update the black list on my server.

Thanks. ;)

[Mr_Spock]

8. "I pity the poor fools who don't have all that technology."

:(

Learned me :D

[Neil Lisst]

10. I'm generally opposed to imprisoning anyone not violent or threatening

[Jamison]

11. I agree.

I'd advocate punishing them with big fines ($10,000+). Personally I think big fines would hurt worse than a couple years in prison.

[Neil Lisst]

12. for spammers, no imprisonment, but breaking their fingers would be OK

[Mr_Spock]

15. lol

:rofl:

There are days when I want to personally participate in that :evilgrin:

[sandnsea]

13. They have to personally apologize

To every person that their spam went to. Knock on the door, sorry madam/sir, I'm responsible for 3,000 of the spams that have clogged your email the last 2 years.

How many doors do you think a spammer would make it to? Wouldn't you like the opportunity to just throttle one of these idjits!!

[dogday]

16. Spammers don't bother me as much as these

sites that inject trojans into your system... I can delete scam mail, trojans, however are a different story...

[Xenotime]

17. Good luck on that...

NEWS FLASH: They are not in this country....

[catmandu57]

18. If we were going to punish people

then I'd go after the fuckers who put spyware, malware, trojans, and viruses, above the spammers, I must admit though I DON'T LIKE SPAM.