Next time you try to block spam from your email...

[Jeremy]

Consider whether you are trying to block it as much as this guy is trying to send it to you.

"LEESBURG, Virginia (AP) -- As one of the world's most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes pumped out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the kind of Internet capacity a 1,000-employee company would need.

Jaynes' business was remarkably lucrative; prosecutors say he grossed up to $750,000 per month. If you have an e-mail account, chances are Jaynes tried to get your attention, pitching software, pornography and work-at-home schemes."

CNN.com - Trial reveals spammer techniques - Nov 14, 2004 (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/11/14/inside.spamming.ap/index.html)

[tkcomer]

It’s probably unrelated but when I go to all my Jeep sites, I would run Ad Aware and find about 7 or 8 spyware bugs. After that article came out, now I only find 1 or 2 and sometimes no spyware. I don’t know if it is a coincidence or not.

[Jeremy]

Could be related. Those are some heavy penalties they slapped that guy with. I think it was 9 years for the guy and a few grand in fines for the sister. While most spyware/adware isn't illegal yet, neither was spam a few years ago. Incidently, this is the tenth anniversary of the first spam sent. It was sent to a number of usegroups by a law firm that specialized in getting green cards for illegal aliens. And the web roles on...