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Wonderful Spam

Do they give the electric chair for spam? The Justice Department has filed a criminal complaint against for men for fraudulent spam. I can see an Alice's Restaurant moment:

"What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Spaming."
And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said,
"And creating a nuisance."
And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime

I hate spam, but I notice it less now that I use a mail program that has a decent spam filter (AKA Apple Mail). I still get 60-70 spams a day, but I only see at worst about 5 of them, usually those that have 5 unconnected words in the title. Why that's hard for the filter to spot and easy for me is left as an excercise for the reader.

I just don't get spam. Who in their right mind actually buys anything from a spammer?

If the Can-Spam Act (shouldn't they change it to Can't-Spam Act?) also covers comment spam, I'm all in favor of it. I just installed MT-Blacklist by Jay Allen to try and stop it here. I never had a problem when I was using Greymatter, but I'm being overrun by it recently.

Posted by Kevin Murphy at April 29, 2004 12:54 PM | Culture