Sunday, December 19, 2004
Now You See It, Now You Don't.
Score one for the good people of Iowa. A federal judge there has ordered seveal commercial spammers to fork over more than $1 billion to the Internet Service Provider. "Robert Kramer, whose company provides e-mail service for about 5,000 subscribers in eastern Iowa, filed suit against 300 spammers after his inbound mail servers received up to 10 million spam e-mails a day in 2000, according to court documents." The judgement was reached under the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and the Iowa Ongoing Criminal Conduct Act.
The only question I have for what is absolutely a great start is, how does some of that cool billion get back to the mailboxes that actually received the spam?
(Amazingly humorous "Spam" graphic courtesy www.spam.com)
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