CNN Article - top spammer arrested...

[PeterMan]

Our inboxes are safe again! :lol:

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail.

Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails.

"He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our customers. This is a very good day."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/31/spam.arrest.ap/index.html

 

[tas38]

The spam I get has not slowed down any, some one must have replaced him already.

 

[Creature]

I hope they make him read (out loud) every email that he has ever sent.

 

[cooljeba]

now shoot him on his head. For wasting so much bandwidth and space, resources etc etc...

..:: Peace ::..
Jeba

 

[AlienGG]

Our inboxes are safe again! :lol:



http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/31/spam.arrest.ap/index.html

Safer

 

[PeterMan]

I hope they make him read (out loud) every email that he has ever sent.

Ha! that is a great punishment...

 

[Rarethings]

I hope they make him read (out loud) every email that he has ever sent.

That's not a bad idea.

But why not make him write out every single email (on paper, with a cracked pencil) and THEN read them all out loud. Then he can recycle each one by hand and turn it into a spam quiche.

 

[DomainsInc]

Funny how they arrest him for basically nothing to do with spam.

 

[katherine]

I hope they make him read (out loud) every email that he has ever sent.

I would print the whole and put him on a strict 'paper diet' in jail k:

 

[VioxxLawyers]

Most of the spam i get was sent from overseas (Eastern Europe, China).

I also still get plenty of lottery/inheritance emails from Africans.

Their spam is out of reach of US/EU authorities.

http://go.sosd.com/servlet/nrp?cmd=sty&cid=RIM&pgn=1&ino=1141791&cat=Technology&lno=1
“Most of the Russian gangs seem to have a lot more freshly hijacked computers and are able to deliver much more spam into people's inboxes,” said Vincent Hanna, a European investigator for Spamhaus. “The stuff that Robert Soloway had under this control, let's call it 'second grade.'”

IronPort said it saw no notable drop in spam volume, with 70 billion messages in a 24-hour period, unchanged from two weeks earlier. The company said spam has doubled from about 36 billion a day last May.