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05/27/2004 Entry: "Eliot Spitzer nabs spammer, gives 'em 3-7 years!"
Eliot Spitzer nabs spammer, gives 'em 3-7 years! Read all about it! (trying to do 1920's newspaper kid voice).
Carmack sent out 825 million bulk e-mail messages using stolen identities and forged addresses, the court found, and was the first defendant to face charges under the state's new identity-theft statute.He was found guilty in April.
The forgery conviction fetched the longest sentence, while the other convictions drew shorter sentences of one year to four years. All will be served concurrently, Spitzer spokesman Brad Maione said.
Carmack could be out in 3-1/2 should he behave in prison, Maione said
I am undecided if spamming should be a crime that even puts people away for months, let alone years.
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I am undecided if spamming should be a crime that even puts people away for months, let alone years.
Good lord, if there's anything to put people away for it is spam. But I'd settle for anything that would keep them completely away from a computer with a live net pipe on it.
I remember when I used to be able to get email without having to wade through piles of garble-texted bullshit to do it. When deleting 5000 spams one often accidentally deletes real mail.
That's where I go ballistic. It's not merely an annoyance any more.
Posted by monde @ 05/31/2004 04:51 AM CST
